Dick Johnson Is Dead

Duration: 89 min
Release date: 2020-01-23
IMDB

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.

Documentary

Dick Johnson Is Dead

Videos

Dick Johnson Is Dead

Watch Providers

Netflix
Netflix Standard with Ads

Casting arrow_drop_down

Crew arrow_drop_down

Recomendation Films

  • They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
  • Cameraperson
  • Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
  • Heart of a Dog
  • Hitchcock/Truffaut
  • Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me
  • "Sr."
  • Frida
  • American Teen
  • Love, Antosha
  • Milius
  • STILL: A Michael J. Fox Movie
  • Belushi
  • Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
  • Lucy and Desi
  • Whitney: Can I Be Me
  • Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond
  • Spielberg
  • Being James Bond
  • My Mom Jayne

Similar Films

  • Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs
  • The Mysterious Life of Zita Johann
  • The Definitive Elvis: The Television Years
  • Váňa
  • Soldier of the Road: A Portrait of Peter Brötzmann
  • The House That Eye Live In
  • The Definitive Elvis: The Memphis Years
  • The Definitive Elvis: Elvis and the Colonel
  • Bergmans början: Ilska. Kärlek. Magknip.
  • The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
  • No No: A Dockumentary
  • Life Itself
  • Alive Inside
  • The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt
  • The Image Revolution
  • The Story of Doctor Carver
  • To Make a Comedy Is No Fun
  • Une taupe de la STASI à la NSA : l'insoupçonnable Sergent Carney
  • Le Temps long
  • Grizzly Man

NextFilm 2026