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Dick Johnson Is Dead is a 2020 American documentary film directed by Kirsten Johnson and co-written by Johnson and Nels Bangerter. The story focuses on Johnson's father Richard, who suffers from dementia, portraying different ways—some of them violent "accidents"—in which he could ultimately die.
Oct 2, 2020 · Dick Johnson Is Dead: Directed by Kirsten Johnson. With Michael Hilow, Ana Hoffman, Dick Johnson, Kirsten Johnson. A daughter helps her father prepare for the end of his life.
Watch Dick Johnson Is Dead | Netflix Official Site. As her father nears the end of his life, filmmaker Kirsten Johnson stages his death in inventive and comical ways to help them both face the inevitable. Watch trailers & learn more.
Oct 2, 2020 · The deaths of Dick Johnson—or "deaths"—are staged for maximum mayhem, sadness, or surreality. Dick dies getting hit on the head by a falling air conditioner, by a car, by having blood spurt from his neck.
Oct 1, 2020 · Pitched artfully between the celebratory and the elegiac, it is an inarguably serious documentary with light, surrealistic flourishes that, at times, veer into exuberant goofiness. Even at its ...
Dick Johnson Is Dead celebrates a life with bittersweet humor and grace, offering a deeply resonant perspective on mortality in the bargain. A filmmaker and her elderly father stage his death...
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Oct 18, 2020 · While that's mostly the case for Kirsten Johnson's new Netflix documentary, Dick Johnson is Dead, which explores her father's battle with memory loss, there's so much more there.
As her father nears the end of his life, filmmaker Kirsten Johnson stages his death in inventive and comical ways to help them both face the inevitable. Watch trailers & learn more.
The darkly funny and wildly imaginative DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD is a love letter from a daughter to a father, creatively blending fact and fiction to create a celebratory exploration of how movies give us the tools to grapple with life’s profundity.
Oct 3, 2020 · Yes — major spoiler alert — Dick Johnson is not dead. But at 88, he is very ill. After spending three years living in Kirsten’s one-bedroom apartment, he began walking out the door in the ...
