The Conspirator (US - DVD R1 | BD RA)
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced this James McAvoy movie
Title: The Conspirator (IMDb)
Starring: Robin Wright
Released: 16th August 2011
SRP: $29.95 (DVD)
Further Details:
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced DVD ($29.95) and Blu-ray ($39.99) releases of The Conspirator for August 16th. Extras will include commentary with Director Robert Redford, a feature length documentary ("The Conspirator: The Plot to Kill Lincoln"), an Introduction to the American Film Company, featurettes ("Making of", "Introduction to the History Behind the Film", "Production Design", "Costume Design", "Props and Special Effects", "The Conspiracy", "Mary Surratt’s Catholicism", "Military Trial", "Frederick Aiken: Defense Lawyer", "Mary Surratt: Guilty or Innocent", "Sentence and Execution"). Artwork is attached:
Quote: In the wake of the assassination of President Lincoln in 1865, a country mourns its leader, and eight people are charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President and Secretary of State. The lone woman accused, Mary Surratt (Wright), owns the boarding house where the attack was planned. Faced with a certain death, Surratt’s only hope comes in the form of a newly minted lawyer and Union war hero, Frederick Aiken (McAvoy), who reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the courtroom trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her son (Johnny Simmons, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World).
News by Tom Woodward
Starring: Robin Wright
Released: 16th August 2011
SRP: $29.95 (DVD)
Further Details:
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has announced DVD ($29.95) and Blu-ray ($39.99) releases of The Conspirator for August 16th. Extras will include commentary with Director Robert Redford, a feature length documentary ("The Conspirator: The Plot to Kill Lincoln"), an Introduction to the American Film Company, featurettes ("Making of", "Introduction to the History Behind the Film", "Production Design", "Costume Design", "Props and Special Effects", "The Conspiracy", "Mary Surratt’s Catholicism", "Military Trial", "Frederick Aiken: Defense Lawyer", "Mary Surratt: Guilty or Innocent", "Sentence and Execution"). Artwork is attached:
Synopsis
Quote: In the wake of the assassination of President Lincoln in 1865, a country mourns its leader, and eight people are charged with conspiring to kill the President, Vice President and Secretary of State. The lone woman accused, Mary Surratt (Wright), owns the boarding house where the attack was planned. Faced with a certain death, Surratt’s only hope comes in the form of a newly minted lawyer and Union war hero, Frederick Aiken (McAvoy), who reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the courtroom trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her son (Johnny Simmons, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World).
News by Tom Woodward
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matt86
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Lincoln was always interesting to learn about to me but I don't care to see this, movies like this tend to bore me and no I don't love transformers because of that. LOL
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I enjoyed it until they started pushing a liberal view of the war in Iraq into the movie, which totally ruined it. Other than that, an interesting plot, to bad none of it can be proved =D
How did The American Film Company get their logo on the front of the box?
The Conspirator was a pretty ok movie. Having lived in Savannah at the time it was filming, it was fun to see locations on screen I walked by every day.
Having said that, it's not a film I particularly wish to revisit any time soon because it felt like a time traveling Law & Order episode had mated with a blatantly obvious allegory for Guantanamo Bay.
Having said that, it's not a film I particularly wish to revisit any time soon because it felt like a time traveling Law & Order episode had mated with a blatantly obvious allegory for Guantanamo Bay.
Like the cover, but it didn't seem at all interesting to me.
snugglepuff, how did they push a view on a modern war into this? I didn't see it and am just wondering how they did it.
There were no allegories for Guantanamo Bay unless you really strained yourself to find one.
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