The Conspirator

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.

IMDB Rating: 7.00/10 (8610 votes)
Rating: PG-13
Rating Explanation: Some violent content
Duration: 122 min
Directed By: Robert Redford
Producer: Brian Falk, Bill Holderman, Robert Redford, Greg Shapiro, Robert Stone and Webster Stone
Written By: James D. Solomon
Casting: Robin Wright, James McAvoy and Tom Wilkinson
Music Composed By: Mark Isham
Distributed By: The American Film Company, Wildwood Enterprises
Production Year: 2010
Date of Release: 2011-08-18
Country: USA
Language: English