Film

Being There 1979

Directed by Hal Ashby

  • Comedy, Drama
  • 130 min
  • PG

Rotten Tomatoes95%

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

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.

ComedyDramausa presidentwashington dc, usabased on novel or bookidentityautismimpotencebotanistphilosophicalambivalentbaffleddignified

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Contemplative, open-ended, cool and spare.

  • contemplativerelentless
  • resolvedopen-ended
  • cooloverwhelming
  • sparerichly built
  • unpretentiousprestige

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