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UNITED STATES · 1979

Being There

Hal Ashby
New Hollywood innocence and naivety social satire identity and reinvention isolation from society media and reality
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Synopsis

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.

Year1979
CountryUnited States
DirectorHal Ashby
MovementNew Hollywood
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