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Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
Directed By Hal Ashby Hal Ashby Starring Peter Sellers Peter Sellers • Shirley MacLaine Shirley MacLaine • Melvyn Douglas Melvyn Douglas • Jack Warden Jack Warden • Richard Dysart Richard Dysart Genres Comedy Drama • Drama • New Hollywood • Political Satire • Satire Studios &Franchises The Criterion Collection • National Film Registry • AFI's 100 Years...100 Laughs • They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? • 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die • Roger Ebert's Great Movies • BAFTA Award for Best Film Nominated • United Artists • Time Out: New York's 100 Best Movies of All Time • Writers Guild of America's 101 Funniest Screenplays • Writers Guild of America's 101 Greatest Screenplays Release Info 1979-12-19T00:00:00Z December 19, 1979 Color • 130 minutes PG see more films from 1979 ► see more about this film on our blog ►
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JC13 on 8/2/2016 Reply · Like · (0 likes)
Shirley MacLaine and Melvyn Douglas are both really good and the story is fine, but it is Peter Sellers fantastic work that makes the film.
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