One bullet killed the President. But not one man.
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Cast
- James McAvoy
- Robin Wright
- Kevin Kline
- Evan Rachel Wood
- Tom Wilkinson
- Justin Long
- Danny Huston
- James Badge Dale
- Colm Meaney
- Alexis Bledel
- Johnny Simmons
- Toby Kebbell
- Jonathan Groff
- Stephen Root
- John Cullum
- Norman Reedus
- John Michael Weatherly
- Marcus Hester
- Chris Bauer
- Jim True-Frost
- Shea Whigham
- David Andrews
- James Kirk Sparks
- John Curran
- Robert C. Treveiler
- Brian F. Durkin
- Cullen Moss
- Jason Hatfield
- Kathleen Hogan
- Gerald Bestrom
- Marshell Canney
- Andy Martin
- Dean Mumford
- Dennis Clark
- Tom Nelson
- Brandon Carroll
- Lori Beth Sikes
- Amy Tipton
- Beau Turpin
- Jordan Gray
- Glenn R. Wilder
- Brian Duffy
- Richard Deloach
- Lindsey Lambrakos
- Cal Johnson
- Chris Eckles
- Kevin Nichols
- Walter Bankson
- Peter Bannon
- Travis Sprayberry
- John Bankson
- Lance Miles
- Adam Porter
- Andy Arrasmith
- Brett Brooks
- Aric Bruggeworth
- Kevin Buttimer
- Russell Cook
- Craig Crumpton
- John Deifer
- Ken Feragen
- Will Finch
- Richard L. Fister
- Blake Garris
- Patricia Garvin
- Christopher John Heady
- Grant Henley
- Rachel Herrick
- Baily Hopkins
- Chloe Kirby
- David Michael-Smith
- William L. Moss Jr.
- William Moss
- Brooke Mullen
- Chase Orsini-Liberatore
- Shane Pinson
- Kenny Prawat
- Jessica Shay
- John L. Smith Jr.
- Jessica Spaid
- Ron Stafford
- Toddrick Thomas
- Michelle Cox Turley
- Jeremy Tuttle
- Ryan Watterson
- Gene Witham
- John Zimmerman
Plots
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
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.
The Conspirator is the true story of Mary Surratt, the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.