Being There
United States • 1979 • 2h 10m
Director
#864Criterion Collection →Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
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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Credits
Crew
DirectorHal Ashby
WriterJerzy Kosiński, Robert C. Jones
CinematographerCaleb Deschanel
ComposerJohnny Mandel
EditorDon Zimmerman
ProducerAndrew Braunsberg, Charles Mulvehill
