Being There
1979 · 2h 10m · Comedy, Drama · United States of America · Rated PG (US)
A story of chance.
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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ambivalentautismbaffledbased on novel or bookbotanistdignifiedidentityimpotencephilosophicalusa presidentwashington dc, usa
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