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Earphones Award Winner (AudioFile Magazine) Audie Award Nominee, Best Solo Narration, 2013Jerzy Kosinski's clever parable of any naive man thrust in to the modern world is more pointed now than ever. Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man, The Graduate), perhaps most widely known for his portrayals of vulnerable characters and antiheroes, gives an understated and exemplary performance of the satiric go through the unreality of American media culture. Chance, the enigmatic gardener, becomes Chauncey Gardiner after getting hit with a limo owned by a Wall Street tycoon. The whirlwind that follows brings Chance to his new status of political policy advisor and possible vice presidential candidate. His garden-variety political responses, inspired by television, become heralded as visionary, and he's soon a media icon due to his unknown background and vague, yet appealing, conversational nature. Being There was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, starring Peter Sellers as Chance, in 1979.
