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Dick Johnson Is Dead

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PG-13 2020 · 1h 29m
Documentary
Starring Kirsten Johnson · Michael Hilow · Michael Melton
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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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Oct 2, 2020
Director
Kirsten Johnson
Producers
Jason Spingarn-Koff, Marilyn Ness, Katy Chevigny
Studio
Big Mouth Productions
Keywords
dying and death biography alzheimer's disease stuntman father daughter relationship
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Kirsten Johnson
Self
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Michael Hilow
Self
M
Michael Melton
Self
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Ira Sachs
Self
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Brett Eidman
Dick Johnson Double
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Fredi Bernstein
Katie Jo Double
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Vasthy Mompoint
Singer
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Kevin Loreque
Buster Keaton

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