Now available on Netflix, DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD is a "darkly funny and wildly imaginative . . . love letter from a daughter to a father, creatively blending fact and fiction to create a celebratory exploration of how movies give us the tools to grapple with life’s profundity."
The Atlantic notes: "The documentary has a loose, tragicomic structure, made up of mocking scenes in which her cheerful dad dies in lurid ways—an air conditioner falls on his head, a loose girder slices open his neck, a car hits him. Before the situation feels too realistic, the façade lifts and he springs up again, alive as ever. For a moment, Kirsten Johnson has conquered death."
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