MOVIE · 2010

The Conspirator

CrimeDrama122 min

In the days after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, boardinghouse owner Mary Surratt becomes the only woman charged in the conspiracy case and is brought before a military tribunal as the country demands punishment. Robin Wright is Surratt, accused of giving shelter to John Wilkes Booth and his circle, while James McAvoy’s Frederick Aiken is a young Union lawyer pressed into her defense. As Aiken begins to question the government’s case, Robert Redford’s film follows a trial shaped by public fury, wartime politics, and the scramble to capture the conspirators still at large.