Robert Rooy | 01:16:00 | United States
English
LOVING JOHN is a deeply compassionate documentary that grapples with death and dying with vulnerable honesty and splashes of humor.
John Godinet is an irrepressible Pacific Islander and ultra-runner living with his husband Peter in rural Maryland. He’s outrun abuse as a teenager and discrimination as an adult, but now has a new adversary: ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease).
In LOVING JOHN, ALS isn’t so much the subject as it is a catalyst — life lived with a ticking clock. Everything is difficult; nothing is simple. John and Peter have a tried-and-true survival strategy: a deep-seated love cultivated over 40 years cloaked in biting humor. But can this carry them through the days ahead?
LOVING JOHN invites us to deeply inhale the fullness of our shared human experience, made all the more precious because of its transience.
Director
Robert Rooy
Producers
Kimberlee Bassford
Anne de Mare
Robert Rooy
Editors
Lynn True
Robert Rooy
