Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

01/23/2020 (US) • 1h 29m

Documentary

Overview

With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

dying and death

biography

alzheimer's disease

stuntman

father daughter relationship

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