Director Robert Redford’s latest film The Conspirator centers on the life of Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), a widow who owned the boarding house where John Wilkes Booth (Toby Kebbell) and other conspirators planned Abraham Lincoln’s assassination.  “It’s really about a mother’s love for her son,” said Redford.  “Because her sacrifice of herself, her stubbornness, and her feistiness really has to do with protecting her son.  That interested me, the emotionality of that.”

James McAvoy (The Last Station) also stars as Union hero turned lawyer Frederick Aiken who defends Surratt before a military tribunal.  “I’ve made films over the years that were high budget and very, very low budget,” said Redford, who also directed Quiz Show and Lions for Lambs. “And when you put them all together the most enjoyable ones were the low budget films.”

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