Being there
(Blu-ray) 

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979.

Based on the novel by Jerzy Kosinski.

Wide screen (1.85:1).

Restored 4K digital transfer.

Features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Celeb Deschanel, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; New documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with members of the production team; Excerpts from a 1980 American Film Institute seminar with director Hal Ashby; Author Jerzy Kosinksi in a 1979 appearance on the Dick Cavett Show; Appearances from 1980 by actor Peter Sellers on NBC's Today and The Don Lane Show; Promo reel featuring Sellers and Ashby; Trailer and TV spots; Deleted scene, outtakes, and an alternate ending; Plus an essay by critic Mark Harris.

Production designer, Michael Haller ; costumes designed by May Routh ; music, Johnny Mandel ; editor, Don Zimmerman ; director of photography, Caleb Deschanel.

Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart.

"In one of his most finely tuned performances, Peter Sellers plays the pure-hearted, childlike Chance, a gardener who is forced into the wilds of Washington, D.C., when his wealthy guardian dies. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn't respond to the click of a remote, Chance stumbles into celebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon (Melvyn Douglas, in an Oscar-winning performance), who mistakes his protégé's horticultural mumblings for sagacious pronouncements on life and politics, and whose wife (Shirley MacLaine) targets Chance as the object of her desire. Adapted from a novel by Jerzy Kosinski, this satire, both deeply melancholy and hilarious, is the culmination of Hal Ashy's remarkable string of films in the 1970s and a carefully modulated examination of the ideals, anxieties and media-fueled delusions that shaped American culture during that decade"--Container.

MPAA rating: PG.

Blu-ray, region A; widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio); uncompressed monaural.

In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).