The Conspirator
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- Genre: Movies • Crime • Drama • History
- Country: United States
- Premier: April 15, 2011
- Director:Robert Redford
- WriterJames D. Solomon, Gregory Bernstein
- Stars:James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin Kline, Evan Rachel Wood, Tom Wilkinson, Justin Long
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Original Title:
The Conspirator
Tagline: One bullet killed the President. But not one man.
Storyline
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 omous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-mted 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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