Magic. Meth. Mayhem.
What begins as a documentary following the final tour of a dying magician - "The Amazing Johnathan" - becomes an unexpected and increasingly bizarre journey as the filmmaker struggles to separate truth from illusion.
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Open-ended, spare, intimate and contemporary.
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
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Cast
- The Amazing JohnathanSelf
- Penn JilletteSelf
- Criss AngelSelf
- Max MavenSelf
- 'Weird Al' YankovicSelf
- Eric AndréSelf
- Judy GoldSelf
- Carrot TopSelf
- Anastasia SynnSelf
- Marvin RoySelf
Crew
- Ben BermanDirector
- Ben BermanWriter
- Joshua CohenWriter
- Ben BermanDirector of Photography
- Dan AdlersteinDirector of Photography
- Zack WrightOriginal Music Composer
- Scott EvansEditor
- Ben BermanEditor
- Jacob PerlinProducer
- Miranda BaileyProducer
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