Being There
"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.
Directed by Hal Ashby
Written by Jerzy Kosiński
Produced by: Charles Mulvehill, Jack Schwartzman, Andrew Braunsberg
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