Dick Johnson Is Dead

2020
13
1h 29m

IMDb RATING

7.4/10

7.4K

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Dick Johnson in Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

A lifetime of making documentaries has convinced 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 and keep her father alive forever. 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. DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD was filmed, produced and directed by Kirsten Johnson (Cameraperson), produced by Katy Chevigny and Marilyn Ness, co-produced by Maureen A. Ryan and executive produced by Megan Ellison.

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Biography Documentary Drama

A daughter helps her father prepare for the end of his life.A daughter helps her father prepare for the end of his life.A daughter helps her father prepare for the end of his life.

Director
- Kirsten Johnson
Writers
- Nels Bangerter
- Kirsten Johnson
Stars

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IMDb RATING

7.4/10

7.4K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Kirsten Johnson
Writers
- Nels Bangerter
- Kirsten Johnson
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 19 wins & 42 nominations total

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Photos17

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Trivia
When Kirsten Johnson pitched the idea to her father, she asked him, "Dad, what if we make a movie where we kill you over and over again until you really die? And he laughed".

Connections
Features Aux origines de l'humanité: Day the Dinosaurs Died (2017)

Soundtracks
Gloria in Excelsis Deo
Written by Antonio Vivaldi (as Antonio Lucio Vivaldi)
Arranged by Andrea Montepaone
Courtesy of Spirit Production Music