The conspirator

The Resource The conspirator
Label
The conspirator
Statement of responsibility
Roadside Attractions ; The American Film Company presents, in association with Wildwood Enterprises ; directed by Robert Redford ; written by James Solomon ; story by James Solomon, Gregory Bernstein ; produced by Robert Redford, Greg Shapiro, Bill Holderman, Brian Falk, Robert Stone ; executive producers, Joe Ricketts, Jeremiah Samuels, Webster Stone
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  • eng
  • eng
  • spa
  • eng
Summary
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
Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Credits note
Director of photography, Newton Thomas Sigel ; production designer, Kalina Ivanov ; editor, Craig McKay ; costume designer, Louise Frogley ; music, Mark Isham ; consulting historians, Frederic L. Borch, James McPherson, Thomas R. Turner
Dewey number
791.43/72
Intended audience
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some violent content
Language note
In English with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed captioned in English
LC call number
PN1997.2
LC item number
.C6676 2011
PerformerNote
James McAvoy (Nicholas Baker), Robin Wright (Mary Surratt), Kevin Kline (Edwin Stanton), Evan Rachel Wood (Anna Surratt), Danny Huston (Joseph Holt), Justin Long (Nicholas Baker), Colm Meaney (General Hunter), Alexis Bledel (Sarah Weston), James Badge Dale (William Hamilton), Toby Kebbell (John Wilkes Booth), Johnny Simmons (John Surratt), Norman Reedus (Lewis Payne), John Cullum (Justice Wylie), Jim True-Frost (General Hartranft), Jonathan Groff (Louis Weichmann), Stephen Root (John Lloyd), Chris Bauer (Major Smith), David Andrews (Father Walter), Tom Wilkinson (Reverdy Johnson)
Runtime
122
Technique
live action
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