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.
Full Cast of Dick Johnson Is Dead
Joanne Reiner Tucker
as Self
Catherine Joy Johnson
as Self
Mary Page Nance
as Katie Jo Dancer
Fredi Bernstein
as Katie Jo Double
Adi Gonzalez
as Frida Kahlo
Dexter Buell
as Sigmund Freud
Morgan Green
as Billie Holiday
Ahsan Ali
as Jesus / Bruce Lee
Samantha Everette Clowes
as Farrah Fawcett
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