The Conspirator

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-04-15

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

122 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(22470 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Redford

Genres:

Crime Drama History

Cast:

James McAvoy Robin Wright Kevin Kline Evan Rachel Wood

Writer:

James D. Solomon

James D. Solomon (story)

Gregory Bernstein (story)

Fullplot:

In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son.

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