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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Kirsten Johnson
Director, Writer, Producer, Director of Photography
Nels Bangerter
Writer, Editor
Megan Ellison
Executive Producer
Jason Spingarn-Koff
Executive Producer
Marilyn Ness
Producer
Katy Chevigny
Producer
John Wakayama Carey
Director of Photography
William Mellette
Costume Design
Nathan Fisher
Production Design
Markus Kirschner
Production Design
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