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Dick Johnson Is Dead

Dick Johnson Is Dead

20207.11h 29m

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.

Directed by Kirsten Johnson
Written by Nels Bangerter, Kirsten Johnson
Produced by Katy Chevigny, Marilyn Ness, Kirsten Johnson
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Isla Sierck

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Jed Sierck

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Felix Torres

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Raymond Damazo

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Michael Hilow

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Michael Melton

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Joanne Reiner Tucker

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dying and deathbiographyalzheimer's diseasestuntmanfather daughter relationship

About Dick Johnson Is Dead

Dick Johnson Is Dead is a documentary film released in 2020 exploring themes of dying and death, biography, alzheimer's disease, stuntman, father daughter relationship. Directed by Kirsten Johnson, it stars Richard Johnson, Kirsten Johnson, Isla Sierck. 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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