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The Devil and Daniel Johnston

7.7 / 10

110 minutes

2006-03-31

English

US

Actors :

Daniel Johnston, Bill Johnston, Margie Johnston, Mabel Johnston, Jeff Tartakov, Kathy McCarty, Dick Johnston, Laurie Allen, Sally Johnston Reid, Gibby Haynes, Brian Beattie, David Fair, Jad Fair, Jason Nightmare, Thurston Moore

Description

This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.