• Director(s)

    Kirsten Johnson

  • Production Year

    2020

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary, Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    90m

  • Cast

    Michael Hilow, Ana Hoffman, Dick Johnson, Kirsten Johnson

Film

Dick Johnson Is Dead

moderate bloody images

DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD is a US documentary in which filmmaker Kirsten Johnson stages her father’s death in inventive and comical ways to help them both face the inevitable.…

DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD is a US documentary in which filmmaker Kirsten Johnson stages her father’s death in inventive and comical ways to help them both face the inevitable.

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injury detail
There are moderate bloody images during comic scenes in which a man’s death is staged in unusual ways, including a sequence in which blood spurts from an obscured neck wound after the man collides with a construction worker.
additional issues
There are references to bereavement and illness as the filmmaker and her father discuss his dementia, as well as his late wife’s Alzheimer’s. There is also very mild bad language (‘God’ and ‘hell’).

  • Director(s)

    Kirsten Johnson

  • Production Year

    2020

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary, Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    90m

  • Cast

    Michael Hilow, Ana Hoffman, Dick Johnson, Kirsten Johnson

moderate bloody images
Classified Date:
28/08/2020
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Netflix International B.V.
injury detail
The filmmaker imagines her father's death in dramatised comic scenes: he falls down the stairs and lies, with a seemingly broken leg, in a pool of blood; blood spurts from his neck after an accidental blow. It is soon revealed how these scenes were staged.
additional issues
There are references to suicide. Death and mental deterioration from Alzheimer's are themes of the film. Language is very mild ('hell', God'). There is mild slapstick and rude humour. In the credits, the title of a piece of music contains the word 'golliwog'.
moderate bloody images
Classified Date:
21/02/2022
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
injury detail
There are moderate bloody images during comic scenes in which a man’s death is staged in unusual ways, including a sequence in which blood spurts from an obscured neck wound after the man collides with a construction worker.
additional issues
There are references to bereavement and illness as the filmmaker and her father discuss his dementia, as well as his late wife’s Alzheimer’s. There is also very mild bad language (‘God’ and ‘hell’).
injury detail
Classified Date:
12/10/2020
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Netflix Services UK Limited
injury detail
Classified Date:
12/10/2020
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Netflix Services UK Limited
injury detail
Classified Date:
12/10/2020
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Netflix Services UK Limited
injury detail
Classified Date:
12/10/2020
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Netflix Services UK Limited
injury detail
Classified Date:
01/10/2020
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
NETFLIX, INC
Classified Date:
21/11/2022
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Classified Date:
21/11/2022
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Classified Date:
21/11/2022
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Classified Date:
21/11/2022
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Classified Date:
21/11/2022
Use:
Physical media
Distributor:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

  • Classified date

    21/02/2022

  • Language

    en