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The conspirator, Roadside Attractions ; The American Film Company presents, in association with Wildwood Enterprises ; directed by Robert Redford ; written by James Solomon ; story by James Solomon, Gregory Bernstein ; produced by Robert Redford, Greg Shapiro, Bill Holderman, Brian Falk, Robert Stone ; executive producers, Joe Ricketts, Jeremiah Samuels, Webster Stone

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MPAA rating: PG-13; for some violent content

The conspirator

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Roadside Attractions ; The American Film Company presents, in association with Wildwood Enterprises ; directed by Robert Redford ; written by James Solomon ; story by James Solomon, Gregory Bernstein ; produced by Robert Redford, Greg Shapiro, Bill Holderman, Brian Falk, Robert Stone ; executive producers, Joe Ricketts, Jeremiah Samuels, Webster Stone

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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

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