User Score
0 votes
Modern medicine treats diseases one-by-one, but what if aging itself is the root cause? The A-Word: The Future of Aging follows visionary scientists racing to extend lifespan and the rescue dog whose bond with an 87-year-old widower demonstrates the stakes of life extension.
Director
Status
Released
Original Language
EN

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.

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.