Dick Johnson Is Dead

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.

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  Kirsten Johnson

  Self
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  Ira Sachs

  Self
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  Brett Eidman

  Dick Johnson Double
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  Michael Fatica

  Dick Johnson Dancer
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  Fredi Bernstein

  Katie Jo Double
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  Vasthy Mompoint

  Singer
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  Kevin Loreque

  Buster Keaton