Being There (1979)

1979 · 130 min · Comedy, Drama

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.

Directed by Hal Ashby. Starring Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden and Richard Dysart.

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