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.

• DirectorHal Ashby
• Release19 December 1979
• Genre
  Comedy / Drama
• Duration2h 10m
• Budget?
• Revenue$30,177,511
• Rate
  

  7.613
  1038 reviews
• Productions

  United Artists, Lorimar Film Entertainment, BSB, CIP, NatWest Ventures, New Gold Entertainment, Northstar Media