Conspirator, The

A factually fascinating, albeit slow-paced, dry, disappointing, star-studded (Tom Wilkinson, Kevin Kline, Danny Huston, Evan Rachel Wood, Colm Meaney, Justin Long, Alexis Bledel, Shea Whigham, et al.), Robert Redford historical drama in which tenacious, 28-year-old Union Army Captain Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy) is reluctantly assigned to defend with all of the cards stacked against him surprisingly unsympathetic, widowed boardinghouse owner Mary Surratt (Robin Wright Penn) after she is put on trial with flimsy, circumstantial evidence for conspiracy with other Confederate sympathizers (Stephen Root, John Michael Weatherly, Jeremy Tuttle, Norman Reedus, Jonathan Groff, et al.) to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln, Vice President Andrew Johnson (Dennis Clark), and the secretary of state after actor John Wilkes Booth (Toby Kebbell) pulled the trigger at the Ford Theater in April 1865.
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