The Conspirator(2011)

Poster of The Conspirator

Synopsis

In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 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. 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, John. As the nation turns against her, Surratt is forced to rely on Aiken to uncover the truth and save her life.
In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President, and Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, owns a boarding house …
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In Theaters

  • April 15, 2011

MPAA Rating

PG-13 (for some violent content)

Genres

Drama, Biopic

Directors

CAST

Robin Wright

Mary Surratt

James McAvoy

Frederick Aiken

Tom Wilkinson

Reverdy Johnson

Evan Rachel Wood

Anna Surratt

Kevin Kline

Edwin Stanton

Alexis Bledel

Sarah Weston
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