Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson

Documentary · 2002

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.

Starring

Jonathan Stark, Billy Collins, Jim Wolpaw, Jim Wolpaw, Leslie Dill, Leslie Fleming-Mitchell, Claire Folger, Julie Harris, Steve Gentile

Director

Jim Wolpaw

Producer

Jim Wolpaw