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The film follows modern day 'Johnny Appleseeds'. A processing engineer at a Silicon Valley company decided to quit it all and grow apples. A fund development consultant has spent fifteen years building an amphitheater in the Ohio wilderness, in order to put on a play about Johnny's life. A New Hampshire high school principal spends a summer walking from Massachusetts to Indiana, along the Appleseed trails. While following their stories, we learn about our main character - however controversial, it turns out that Johnny Appleseed was an entrepreneur and a visionary.

Searching for Johnny is a 2009 documentary with a runtime of 1 hour and 18 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.4.