Being There

Being There

7.6IMDb Score
Released:1979-12-19
Genre:Comedy, Drama
Duration:130 min
Country:United States of America
Director:Hal Ashby
Actors:Peter Sellers, Shirley MacLaine, Melvyn Douglas, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart
Production:Northstar Media, Lorimar Motion Pictures

Overview:

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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