Dick Johnson Is Dead

Name: Dick Johnson Is Dead
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-01-23
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Richard Johnson, Kirsten Johnson, Isla Sierck, Jed Sierck, Felix Torres

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7.1(137 votes)

2020

1h 29m

Documentary

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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.