Movie

Dick Johnson Is Dead

2020 · 89 min

A tender, playful, and heartbreakingly honest meditation on mortality, made bearable by the loving collaboration between a daughter and her father.

Overview: 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.
How it feels: Warm, dark, melancholic and whimsical. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Death, family, grief, aging
Content: Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
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Tone: warmstrength 3 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: death
family
grief
aging
love
Places: home
big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: true story
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none