The Devil and Daniel Johnston
March 31, 2006
110 minutes
7.7
DocumentaryMusic

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

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.

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Cast
Daniel Johnston
(Self)
Bill Johnston
(Self)
Margie Johnston
(Self)
Mabel Johnston
(Self)
Jeff Tartakov
(Self)
Kathy McCarty
(Self)
Dick Johnston
(Self)
Laurie Allen
(Self)
Sally Johnston Reid
(Self)
Gibby Haynes
(Self)
Brian Beattie
(Self)
David Fair
(Self)
Jad Fair
(Self)
Jason Nightmare
(Self)
Thurston Moore
(Self)
Louis Black
(Self)
Ken Lieck
(Self)
Don Goede
(Self)
John Pochna
(Self)
David Thornberry
(Self)
Peter Zaremba
(Self)
Matt Groening
(Self)
Blair Sterrett
(Self)
Kurt Cobain
(Self (Archival footage))
Woody Allen
(Self (Archival footage))
Brian Wilson
(Self (Archival footage))