Fresh
Atmospheric, illuminating and affecting, The Conspirator captivates like an untold story -- one that you can't believe you've never heard until now, and won't soon forget.
Christine Champ, Film.com
The Conspirator
One bullet killed the President. But not one man.
2011 · 2h 2m · PG-13
Crime, Drama, History
Directed by
Robert Redford
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Robert Redford Director
- Evan Rachel Wood as Anna Surratt
- James McAvoy as Frederick Aiken
- Kevin Kline as Edwin Stanton
- Robin Wright as Mary Surratt
- Alexis Bledel as Sarah Weston
- Justin Long as Nicholas Baker
- Tom Wilkinson as Reverdy Johnson
- Norman Reedus as Lewis Payne
- Toby Kebbell as John Wilkes Booth
- Jonathan Groff as Louis Weichmann
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
55%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Once the ideological cat is out of the bag, the drama is degraded to the level of a historical pageant.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Rotten
Leaves us feeling as empty as a raided tomb.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Fresh
A bracing courtroom drama whose every scene seems wreathed in mist, dust motes and cigar smoke, the better to suggest a nation befogged by grief.
John Anderson, Newsday
Fresh
There's a stiffness that keeps the story from packing a punch. Still, it's handsomely mounted, and at its best moments has the patina of a Masterpiece Theater production.
Claudia Puig, USA Today
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