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The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive, unrecognized artist.

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.
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
Loaded Gun: Life and Death and Dickinson is a documentary film released in 2002 exploring themes of emily dickinson. Directed by Jim Wolpaw, it stars Billy Collins, Leslie Dill, Leslie Fleming-Mitchell. 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.
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