RankquantRQ
Being There (1979) poster
1979
global pct
87.6

Film · 1979 · Films · 1970s

Being There

Scored from 276 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1970s (2,406 peers).

87.6%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
84.4%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
98.4%
AI-adjusted percentile
276 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Chance, a sheltered gardener who has spent his entire life tending the grounds of a wealthy Washington townhouse, is forced into the outside world when his employer dies. His simple, television-shaped pronouncements about gardening are mistaken for profound metaphors by the political and business elite, and he is swept into the orbit of a dying tycoon and his wife, rising to improbable national prominence.

Being There (1979) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and drama genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Satire.

The calibrated figure is built from 276 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 285 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 1,549 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1970s films — 2,406 of them.

Is Being There (1979) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 1970s · 2,406 titles
Calibrated reviewers
276

Cohort: Films · 1970s

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