UNTITLED AMAZING JOHNATHAN DOCUMENTARY

By Ben BERMAN

SUBMARINE ENTERTAINMENT - as SALES

Documentary - Completed 2018


Festivals
& Awards

Sundance Film Festival 2019
U.S. Documentary Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 94 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ben BERMAN
    • Synopsis
    • It begins as a documentary about “The Amazing Johnathan,” a uniquely deranged magician who built a career out of shock and deception in the 1980s—but becomes a bizarre story about the unravelling of his documentarian.

      After Johnathan is diagnosed with a terminal heart condition and given one year to live, he’s forced to retire his act. Cut to three years later: Johnathan is not dead, much to everyone’s amazement, and documentarian Ben Berman films the illusionist on an epic comeback tour. But as their mutual journey kicks off, Johnathan drops a bombshell that sends the film spiraling into uncertainty. Embracing this unforeseen obstacle, Ben delves deeper to determine what is truth and what is illusion.