Dick Johnson Is Dead
2020, Film, 89 min, Biography, Documentary, Drama, English, United States, MoviePedia score 70
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.
Where to watch in India
- Stream on Netflix
Directed by Kirsten Johnson
Cast
- Michael Hilow as Consultant
- Ana Hoffman as Backup Singer
- Dick Johnson as Self
- Kirsten Johnson as Self
- Chad Knorr as Construction worker
- Kevin Loreque as Buster Keaton
- Vasthy Mompoint as Backup Singer
- Mary Page Nance as Katie Jo
- Ira Sachs as Self
- Nicole Tio as Backup Singer
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