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Review: 'Dick Johnson Is Dead' is the strangest, most surreally moving of father-daughter love stories

When we first meet C. Richard Johnson, he is very much alive, and gloriously so: He's an effortlessly charming presence, with a sweet smile, a generous laugh and eyes that twinkle with merriment. Sometimes those eyes fill with tears, especially when he's sharing a tender moment with his daughter, documentary filmmaker Kirsten Johnson, who occasionally steps out from behind the camera to hug her father and best friend. "Just the idea that I might ever lose this man is too much to bear," she says by way of introducing the premise of this

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