On Expenses (2010)

Directed by

Simon Cellan Jones

Genre

drama film, docudrama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

59 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A journalist fights to make British MPs' expense claims public. The Speaker of the House tries to block her using legal and political means.

investigativetensedryseriousproceduralunderstatedconfrontationalinformative

What happens

On Expenses is a 2010 British television film directed by Simon Cellan Jones and starring Anna Maxwell Martin as Heather Brooke and Brian Cox as Michael Martin. The film documents the true story of journalist Heather Brooke's attempt to get expenses claims of Members of Parliament released under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Speaker Michael Martin's battle to prevent it. Brooke herself had a non-speaking cameo in the film as a female MP in the scene where Martin assumes the position of Speaker. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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