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The Conspirator
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- How long is The Conspirator?
- The Conspirator is 2 hr 3 min long.
- Who directed The Conspirator?
- Robert Redford
- Who is Frederick Aiken in The Conspirator?
- James McAvoy plays Frederick Aiken in the film.
- What is The Conspirator about?
- 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, 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. 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.