Dick Johnson Is Dead

Name: Dick Johnson Is Dead
Genre: Drama, Documentary
Released: October 2, 2020
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 87
Cast: Ana Hoffman, Dick Johnson, Kirsten Johnson, Vasthy Mompoint

2020

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): October 2, 2020 | PG-13

Starring: Ana Hoffman, Dick Johnson, Kirsten Johnson, Vasthy Mompoint

Summary: A lifetime of making documentaries has convinced the 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 atA lifetime of making documentaries has convinced the 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.… Expand

Director: Kirsten Johnson

Genre(s): Drama, Documentary

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 89 min

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Justin Chang

Oct 1, 2020

This is a funny film about death, which is to say it’s a wrenching film about life. Read full review

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Todd McCarthy

Jan 26, 2020

Dick Johnson Is Dead is a funny, touching and, to be sure, unique film, and the Johnsons are a very fortunate father and daughter Read full review

Eric Kohn

Jan 26, 2020

Oscillating from intimate father-daughter exchanges to surreal meta-fictional tangents, the movie lives within its riveting paradox, reflecting the queasy uncertainty surrounding its subject’s fate. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

Jan 26, 2020

It’s when Johnson strays from strict adherence to the concept that the most profound insights come. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Oct 2, 2020

Johnson and her father share a sense of humor, and the bond between them informs the finest moments of Dick Johnson Is Dead. Yet I can’t stop thinking about the friend crying, alone, in the church, so verklempt he forgot he was in a movie — one place where this documentary’s joyful dark humor isn’t as amusing as it should be. Read full review

Keith Watson

Sep 28, 2020

Dick Johnson Is Dead is very much a film about its own making, one which repeatedly exposes its artifice. Read full review

Ty Burr

Sep 30, 2020

If you’ve ever helped shepherd a parent or a grandparent in their final years, you may be better equipped to handle this movie’s gallows humor and to appreciate the care with which it separates the contradictory emotions felt by Kirsten and all grown children. Read full review

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