Released
Being There
December 19 1979 (about 45 years ago)Rating
76
Based on
976 reviews
Getting there is half the fun; being there is all of it!
- Director: Hal Ashby
- Writers: Jerzy Kosiński, Robert C. Jones
- Genres: Comedy, Drama
- Runtime: 2 h 10 m
- Box office: $30,177,511
- Countries: Germany, United States of America
- Companies: United Artists, Lorimar Film Entertainment, BSB, CIP, NatWest Ventures, New Gold Entertainment, Northstar Media
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.
