Being There
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
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.
- Director
- Hal Ashby
- Signature
- Drama · Craft · Humour
- Worldwide
- $30M
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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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- Worldwide gross
- $30M
- Release date
- Dec 19, 1979
- Runtime
- 2h 10m
- MPAA rating
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- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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