Watch NowDick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
23/01/2020
Documentary
1h 29m
- 71% (136 votes)
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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.
- Kirsten JohnsonDirector, Writer
- Nels BangerterWriter
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Keywords
- dying and death
- biography
- alzheimer's disease
- stuntman
- father daughter relationship
Top Billed Cast
Richard Johnson
Self
Kirsten Johnson
Self
Isla Sierck
Self
Jed Sierck
Self
Felix Torres
Self
Viva Torres
Self
Raymond Damazo
Self
Michael Hilow
Self
Michael Melton
Self
Joanne Reiner Tucker
Self
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