Being There
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
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12/19/1979Runtime
130 minsOverview
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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EnglishBudget
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$30,177,511Homepage
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A profoundly strange and gentle fable about a man who knows nothing but plants and television thrust into the corridors of power, where his innocent emptiness becomes inexplicably profound. It's both darkly comic and oddly moving, a puzzle that rewards patient attention.
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Peter Sellers
Chance
Shirley MacLaine
Eve Rand
Melvyn Douglas
Benjamin Rand
Jack Warden
President 'Bobby'
Richard Dysart
Dr. Robert Allenby
Richard Basehart
Vladimir Skrapinov
Ruth Attaway
Louise
David Clennon
Thomas Franklin
Fran Brill
Sally Hayes
Denise DuBarry
Johanna Franklin
Alice Hirson
First Lady
Jerome Hellman
Gary Burns
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