On Expenses (2010)

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UK

Short Television Film

Director: Simon Cellan Jones

Writer: Tony Saint

Cinematographer: Ruairi O'Brien

Composer: Adrian Johnston

Cast: Anna Maxwell Martin, Brian Cox, Alex Jennings, Tim Pigott-Smith, David Calder, Christopher Good, Neil Pearson, Jeremy Swift, Raquel Cassidy, Steve John Shepherd

This witty and playful yet thoroughly credible and wonderfully acted (particularly by Cox and Martin) BBC film depicts the progress of American journalist Heather Brooke’s fight to have the details of MPs’ expenses released to the public under The Freedom of Information Act 2000, juxtaposed against Michael Martin, Speaker of the House of Commons’s fight to keep them under wraps. Iain.Stott