Movie
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2020-01-23
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Genres
- Documentary
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Big Mouth Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Richard Johnson as Self
- Kirsten Johnson as Self
- Isla Sierck as Self
- Jed Sierck as Self
- Felix Torres as Self
- Viva Torres as Self
- Raymond Damazo as Self
- Michael Hilow as Self
- Michael Melton as Self
- Joanne Reiner Tucker as Self
- Ken Tucker as Self
- Laurie McEwan as Self
Crew
- Kirsten Johnson - Director
- Nels Bangerter - Writer
- Kirsten Johnson - Writer
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