Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
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.
- Release date
- January 23, 2020
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Michael Hilow as Consultant
- Ana Hoffman as Backup Singer
- Dick Johnson as Self
- Kirsten Johnson as Self
- Chad Knorr as Construction worker
- Kevin Loreque as Buster Keaton
- Vasthy Mompoint as Backup Singer
- Mary Page Nance as Katie Jo
- Ira Sachs as Self
- Nicole Tio as Backup Singer
Crew
- Kirsten Johnson · Director
- Nels Bangerter · Writer
- Kirsten Johnson · Writer
- Katy Chevigny · Producer
- Kirsten Johnson · Producer
- Marilyn Ness · Producer
- Hiromi Nishida · Composer
- Hitomi Shimizu · Composer
- John Foster · Cinematographer
- J.P. Wakayama · Cinematographer
- Nels Bangerter · Editor
- Matthew Maisto · Casting director
- Nathan Fisher · Production designer
- Markus Kirschner · Production designer