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Summary A lifetime of making documentaries has convinced the award-winning filmmaker Kirsten Johnson of the power of the real. But now she's ready to use every escapist movie-making trick in the book - staging inventive and fantastical ways for her 86-year-old psychiatrist father to die while hoping that cinema might help her bend time, laugh at...

Dick Johnson Is Dead
Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 28 Critic Reviews
89
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 45 User Ratings
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Summary A lifetime of making documentaries has convinced the award-winning filmmaker Kirsten Johnson of the power of the real. But now she's ready to use every escapist movie-making trick in the book - staging inventive and fantastical ways for her 86-year-old psychiatrist father to die while hoping that cinema might help her bend time, laugh at...

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Generally Favorable Based on 45 User Ratings
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Production Company Big Mouth Productions
Release Date Oct 2, 2020
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating PG-13
Critics' Choice Documentary Awards
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 2 Wins & 4 Nominations
Indiana Film Journalists Association, US
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations