Description
In one of his most finely tuned performances, Peter Sellers (The Pink Panther) plays the pure-hearted Chance, a gardener forced out of moneyed seclusion and into the urban wilds of Washington, D.C., after the death of his employer. Shocked to discover that the real world doesn't respond to the click of a remote, Chance stumbles haplessly into celebrity after being taken under the wing of a tycoon (Oscar winner Melvyn Douglas), who mistakes his new protege's mumbling about horticulture for sagacious pronouncements on life and politics, and whose wife (The Apartment's Shirley MacLaine) targets Chance as the object of her desire. Adapted from a novel by Jerzy Kosinski, this hilarious, deeply melancholy satire marks the culmination a remarkable string of films by Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude) in the 1970s, and serves as a carefully modulated examination of the ideals, anxieties, and media-fueled delusions that shaped American culture during that decade.
Product details
| Director | Hal Ashby |
| Actor | Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Jack Warden, Melvyn Douglas |
| Label | Warner Home Video |
| Genre |
Comedy
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| Content | DVD |
| FSK / age rating | from age 6 |
| Publication date | 10.07.2003 |
| Region code | 2 |
| Year of production | 1979 |
| Length | 125 Minutes |
| Audio | English (Mono), German (Mono) |
| Subtitles | English, German (for deaf or hard of hearing), German |
| Extras | Trailer |
| Screen | 16/9 |
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Peter SellersCustomer reviews
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Vorletzter Film
Danach kam noch Fu Manchu. Peter, wir vermissen Dich.
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Tiefsinniger und sehr satirischer Film, vor allem in Bezug auf die US-Politik. Auch heutzutage noch aktuell. Wer macht die Politik, die sog. Graue Eminenz. Grandiose Besetzung. Tragisch ist nur, dass es der letzte Film mit Peter Sellers war.
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poetisch
toller unspektakulärer film - sehr tiefsinnig und poetisch
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meisterwerk
sehr genialer film !
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super
exzellent, bitterböse satire. wie sich eigentlich intelligente leute vom einfachsten und selbstverständlichsten blenden lassen können, wird hier herrlich umgesetzt. peter sellers wie immer top.
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..and I like to watch Sellers
Quotes:
Ron Steigler: Mr. Gardner, uh, my editors and I have been wondering if you would consider writing a book for us, something about your um, political philosophy, what do you say?
Chance the Gardener: I can't write.
Ron Steigler: Heh, heh, of course not, who can nowadays? Listen, I have trouble writing a postcard to my children. Look uhh, we can give you a six figure advance, I've provide you with the very best ghost-writer, proof-readers...
Chance the Gardener: I can't read.
Ron Steigler: Of course you can't! No one has the time! We, we glance at things, we watch television...
Chance the Gardener: I like to watch TV.
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