“Being There” is a comedy with beauty and charm to match its humour, it is done in the same vein as the more popular “Forrest Gump” film if you wanted a clearer image of what it is like. Peter Sellers (“The Pink Panther”, “Dr. Strangelove”) has appeared in comedies across the quality spectrum, “Being There” was one of his last and surely one of his best.

In “Being There”, a gardener named Chance (Sellers), who have never left his master’s house and enjoys watching endless amounts of tv, finds himself in the real-world. His comments about gardening are mistaken for being metaphorical and he quickly becomes an important figure in economical politics in America.

Peter Sellers is simply wonderful here; he captures the perfect sense innocence the same way Tom Hanks did with the Forrest Gump character. There is never a single frame where Sellers seems to be at fault and I highly applaud and respect him for that. The other characters in the film while they’re good and the people playing them are good, I find them fading into the background as Sellers dominates the screen. His interaction with them is fascinating and is pitch-perfect to say the least.

With all this showering of praise, you may think I should give this top marks but this is an annoying flaw in this movie and that is that we constantly see what Chance is watching on tv, I don’t want to see some boring clip because observing him with his eyes always fixated on any tv is far superior. “Being There” has jokes that are virtually all about miscommunication but this never gets old and what is great is how the quality of jokes far outweighs the quantity. The jokes don’t make you laugh-out-loud as they are more subtle and having you thinking inside, they are the kind of jokes people love to make at dinner parties and other social gatherings but always seem to fail to; the ones who do are just naturals.