Overview
Genre
DramaRelease Date
April 15, 2011MPAA Rating
PG-13Duration
122 min.Studio
Roadside AttractionsOfficial Site
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Cast and Crew
Director
Robert RedfordProducer
Robert Redford, Bill Holderman, Greg Shapiro, Brian Peter Falk, Robert Stone, Webster StoneScreenwriter
James D. SolomonStarring
- Robin Wright Penn as Mary Surratt
- James McAvoy as Frederick Aiken
- Justin Long as Nicholas Baker
- Evan Rachel Wood as Anna Surratt
- Tom Wilkinson as Reverdy Johnson
- Kevin Kline as Edwin Stanton
- Alexis Bledel as Sarah Weston
- Danny Huston as Joseph Holt
- Colm Meaney
- Toby Kebbell as John Wilkes Booth
- Jonathan Groff as Louis Weichmann
- Stephen Root
Story
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 (Robin Wright), 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 (James McAvoy), 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.
