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Being There (1979)

Being There (1979)

Drama Comedy

Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!

Release Date: 1979, December 19
Directors: Hal Ashby
Countries: United States of America
Production: Northstar Media, Lorimar Motion Pictures, Lorimar Motion Pictures
Cast: David Clennon, Elya Baskin, Jack Warden, Peter Sellers, Richard Dysart, Stanley Grover, Richard Venture, Shirley MacLaine, Alice Hirson, Fran Brill, James Noble, Kenneth Patterson

Overview:

A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.

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