A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run-in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman and her husband Ben , an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.

GENRE: Drama, Comedy
MPAA RATING: PG
RUN TIME: 2h 10m
RELEASE DATE: December 31, 1969
STARRING: Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart
DIRECTOR(S): Hal Ashby
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WRITER(S): Jerzy Kosinski
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