Being There, director Hal Ashby's odd stab at political satire, revived Peter Sellers' curious career before his death. The plot orbits around an innocent gardener named Chance — or, as Eve Rand (Shirley MacLaine) mishears, Chauncey Gardiner — who has gleaned most of his worldly knowledge through television. After the death of his benefactor, Chance is thrown into a real-world whirlwind when Eve and her Washington-insider husband strike up a friendship with the well-dressed wanderer. People begin to interpret Chance's simple (and gardening-inspired) observations as deep insights, and an "emperor's new clothes" situation ensues.