Dick Johnson Is Dead

Name: Dick Johnson Is Dead
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2020-01-23
Duration: 89 min
Cast: Jed Sierck, Laurie McEwan, Julie Tilton, Nicole Tio, Morgan Green

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1/23/2020

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89 mins

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Documentary

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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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Original Language

English

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A tender and wildly inventive documentary that stages elaborate, darkly comic fantasies of death as a radical act of love and presence. It's less about saying goodbye than about how creativity and humor can transform grief into something alive.