Dick Johnson Is Dead(2020)

89 min · Documentary · Directed by Kirsten Johnson

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PG-13

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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US release dates

Premiere: January 23, 2020
Digital: October 2, 2020

Cast

Richard JohnsonSelf
Kirsten JohnsonSelf
Isla SierckSelf
Jed SierckSelf
Felix TorresSelf

Crew

Kirsten JohnsonDirector, Writer, Director of Photography
Nels BangerterWriter, Editor
John Wakayama CareyDirector of Photography