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.
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Prestige, contemporary, spare and character-led.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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Cast
- Richard JohnsonSelf
- Kirsten JohnsonSelf
- Isla SierckSelf
- Jed SierckSelf
- Felix TorresSelf
- Viva TorresSelf
- Raymond DamazoSelf
- Michael HilowSelf
- Michael MeltonSelf
- Joanne Reiner TuckerSelf
Crew
- Kirsten JohnsonDirector
- Nels BangerterWriter
- Kirsten JohnsonWriter
- John Wakayama CareyDirector of Photography
- Kirsten JohnsonDirector of Photography
- Nels BangerterEditor
- Marilyn NessProducer
- Katy ChevignyProducer
- Kirsten JohnsonProducer
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