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Dick Johnson Is Dead

Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

Documentary, Drama, Biographical | United States

Director: Kirsten Johnson

Where to watch

Streaming

04/10/2020

Rating: 7.4/10

SYNOPSIS

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.

Actors

Writer: Nels Bangerter, Kirsten Johnson

Producer: Katy Chevigny, Megan Ellison

RUNTIME: 89 min

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