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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.
Watch Dick Johnson Is Dead with a subscription on Netflix. Dick Johnson Is Dead celebrates a life with bittersweet humor and grace, offering a deeply resonant perspective on mortality in the...
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Dick Johnson Is Dead 2020 | Maturity Rating: 13+ | 1h 30m | Documentaries 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.
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. Sometimes the deaths just suddenly happen. Other times they're telegraphed well in advance, by showing Kirsten and Dick in conversation ...
Dick Johnson Is Dead. This playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director’s beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she is beginning to face the reality of losing him to dementia.
Oct 1, 2020 · Critics like to pigeonhole movies using familiar categories — fiction, nonfiction, happy, sad — but one of the charms of “Dick Johnson Is Dead” is how slippery it is.
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.
Sep 30, 2020 · At the forefront of this miniature revolution is the great Kirsten Johnson and her latest film Dick Johnson Is Dead, streaming this weekend on Netflix.
