Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson ( 2002 )

Overview

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.

Top Cast

Billy Collins

Himself

Leslie Dill

Herself

Leslie Fleming-Mitchell

Emily Candidate

Julie Harris

Herself

Nicole Jesson

An Emily Dickinson

Dan Lombardo

Himself

Polly Longsworth

Herself

Lisa Perkins

Herself

Alan Powers

Himself

Michele Proude

Auditioning Emily