7.2/10
NETFLIX Rating : 3.7
IMDB Rating : 6.9
FD Smart Rating : 7.2
Synopsis : This gripping drama follows the efforts of a young lawyer to defend a Confederate sympathizer accused of conspiring to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
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Bangladesh
, Bhutan
, Maldives
, Nepal
, Pakistan
, Sri Lanka
James McAvoy , Robin Wright , Kevin Kline , Evan Rachel Wood
English
English
Crime, Drama, History
2010
1h57m
some violent content
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.