Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson (2002)

Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson

2002

Documentary

Synopsis

Hundreds of scholars and biographers have tried to explain the life and work of Emily Dickinson, but the famously reclusive poet remains an enigma. In LOADED GUN: Life, and Death, and Dickinson, stumped filmmaker Jim Wolpaw uses a decidedly unorthodox approach to create a documentary about the writer whose beautiful, haunting and cryptic poetry has never quite squared with her reputation as a sensitive spinster. Wolpaw's efforts to illuminate this ethereal subject - more than 150 years after her death - yield some hilariously frustrating results.

Credits

Director

Jim Wolpaw

Cast

Alan Powers as Himself

Billy Collins as Himself

Dan Lombardo as Himself

Julie Harris as Herself

Leslie Dill as Herself

Leslie Fleming-Mitchell as Emily Candidate

Lisa Perkins as Herself

Michele Proude as Auditioning Emily