Being There

Being There

1979 · 130 min · EN · PG · 7.6 (859 votes)
Dir. Hal Ashby · Starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart, Richard Basehart · Music Johnny Mandel

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

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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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A quietly profound and subtly satirical journey. It feels like a gentle, reflective observation on identity, perception, and the strange ways society interprets simplicity, all wrapped in a poignant, deadpan humor that lingers long after the credits.

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