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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.
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.
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.
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 2, 2020 · Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020) Rated PG-13 for thematic elements and macabre images. A filmmaker's fascinating contemplation of her father's mortality, her own, and everyone's.
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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Tackling taboo questions of aging, mortality, and grief with subversive humor and surprising grace, Dick Johnson Is Dead is ultimately a triumphant celebration of life, and of the gentle, funny, unforgettable man at its center.
Oct 2, 2020 · A lifetime of making documentaries has convinced the award-winning filmmaker Kirsten Johnson of the power of the real. But now she's ready to use every escapist movie-making trick in the book - staging inventive and fantastical ways for her 86-year-old psychiatrist father to die while hoping that cinema might help her bend time, laugh at pain ...
Jan 4, 2021 · Dick Johnson, a retired psychiatrist, goes cheerfully about his business as he is, by turns, crushed by a falling air conditioner, gruesomely dispatched by a wayward wood beam and stumbles down...
