MOVIZA

Dick Johnson Is Dead

Movie 7.1 2020

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.

Play

Documentary · 89 min

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.

More Like This

Heart of a Dog 6.5
Cameraperson 6.7
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction 6.9
Altman 6.6
My Mom Jayne 8.0
STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie 7.8
David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived 7.1
Being James Bond 7.8
Ozzy: No Escape from Now 8.3
Robin's Wish 7.0
Stories We Tell 7.1
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold 7.4
Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20 7.2
Seduced and Abandoned 6.2
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley 7.0
Spielberg 7.5
The Eyes of Orson Welles 6.9
Deliver Us from Evil 7.2
Maria by Callas 7.4
American Teen 6.4