The Conspirator
2010 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Year 1865. 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 (Robyn Wright), 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth (Toby Kebbell) and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken (James MacAvoy), 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.
Direction Robert Redford
Cast James McAvoy · Robin Wright · Kevin Kline · Evan Rachel Wood · Danny Huston · Justin Long · Tom Wilkinson · Alexis Bledel · Johnny Simmons · Norman Reedus · Jonathan Groff · James Badge Dale · Toby Kebbell · Stephen Root · Colm Meaney · John Cullum
Soundtrack Mark Isham
Screenplay Gregory Bernstein · James D. Solomon
Cinematography Newton Thomas Sigel
Original title The Conspirator
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