Dick Johnson is dead, a Netflix original documentary ; a Big Mouth Productions film ; filmed, produced and directed by Kirsten Johnson ; producers, Katy Chevigny, Marilyn Ness ; written by Nels Bangerter & Kirsten Johnson
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Dick Johnson is dead, a Netflix original documentary ; a Big Mouth Productions film ; filmed, produced and directed by Kirsten Johnson ; producers, Katy Chevigny, Marilyn Ness ; written by Nels Bangerter & Kirsten Johnson
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
MPAA rating: PG-13 (parents strongly cautioned; some material may be inappropriate for children under 13) for thematic elements and macabre images
Main title
Dick Johnson is dead
Medium
DVD
Oclc number
1286630381
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a Netflix original documentary ; a Big Mouth Productions film ; filmed, produced and directed by Kirsten Johnson ; producers, Katy Chevigny, Marilyn Ness ; written by Nels Bangerter & Kirsten Johnson
Runtime
89
Series statement
Criterion collection, 1111
Summary
"This playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director's beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she has begun to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways in which the man she loves most in the world might die, staging a series of alternately darkly comic and colorfully imaginative tableaux interwoven with raw vérité footage capturing the pair's tender but increasingly fragile bond. Tackling taboo questions of aging, mortality, and grief with subversive humor and surprising grace, Dick Johnson is Dead is ultimately a triumphant celebration of life, and of the gentle, funny, unforgettable man at its center. Long live Dick Johnson"--Container
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Dick Johnson's dead
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- Documentary films
- Adult children of aging parents -- Biography
- Fathers and daughters
- Dementia + Patients + Care -- Case studies
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- Videodiscs for people with visual disabilities
- Feature films
- Johnson, Kirsten, Kirsten Boyd
- Aging parents -- Biography
- Johnson, Charles Richard, 1932-
- Dementia + Patients -- Biography
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- Documentary films
- Adult children of aging parents -- Biography
- Fathers and daughters
- Dementia + Patients + Care -- Case studies
- Videodiscs for the hearing impaired
- Videodiscs for people with visual disabilities
- Feature films
- Johnson, Kirsten, Kirsten Boyd
- Aging parents -- Biography
- Johnson, Charles Richard, 1932-
- Dementia + Patients -- Biography
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