The film, according to The American Film Company, is described this way: "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 (Wright) owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth (Toby Kebbell) and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous backdrop of post-Civil War Washington, newly minted lawyer Frederick Aiken (McAvoy), 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 (Johnny Simmons). 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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Robert Redford directs the cast of "The Conspirator" which includes Kline (as Edwin Stanton), Wright (as Mary Surratt), and Groff (Louis Weichmann) in addition to James McAvoy, Alexis Bledel, James Badge Dale, Danny Huston, Toby Kebbell, Justin Long, Colm Meaney, Stephen Root, Tom Wilkinson and Evan Rachel Wood.
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