Being There

Film, Literature and the New World Order

Oct 17, 201659:12Arts

Julian Charles of TheMindRenewed.com joins us this month to discuss Being There, the 1979 film by director Hal Ashby that follows the story of Chance the Gardener, a simple man with no experience of the outside world who...

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