The Conspirator (PG-13)
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, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth, 26, and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. 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.
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Drama
2 hr. 2 min.
Opened April 15th, 2011
MovieGoer Review
A film divided against itself cannot stand. In the historical drama The Conspirator, director Robert Redford is torn between telling the story of Mary Surratt, a Washington, D.C., woman implicated (wrongly, it seems) in the conspiracy to ki... MORE
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, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth, 26, and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. 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.
details
Drama
2 hr. 2 min.
Opened April 15th, 2011
MovieGoer Review
A film divided against itself cannot stand. In the historical drama The Conspirator, director Robert Redford is torn between telling the story of Mary Surratt, a Washington, D.C., woman implicated (wrongly, it seems) in the conspiracy to ki... MORE
