"A super-rich couple search for the perfect London home. The only hitch… none are expensive enough."
A Peter Leon Brookes Film
Writer & Director
Peter Leon Brookes is an award-nominated director and writer who specialises in quirky comedies with a truthful core. His most recent short film, Politicians Anonymous, has received multiple festival accolades including the Honourable Mention for Best Comedy at the Absurd Film Festival. He has experience writing scripts for Emmy-winning production house Duck Soup Films, with his writing being described by the BBC as 'wonderfully funny', and by Channel 4 as 'a great read'. He also has experience as a comedy actor in Oscar-winning films such as The Favourite, and in major commercials such as for Tesco, Vodafone, Xbox and McDonalds.
Synopsis
International business owners Lord and Lady Thurloe tour Kensington and Chelsea with impeccably professional estate agent Ms Sloane. Silver-spooned Lord Thurloe is keen to seal any deal — anything to get back to Monaco to play bridge all day. But ambitious narcissist Lady Thurloe is far more exacting, demanding only the most extravagant residence money can buy, determined to blare their wealth in the faces of their peers in international finance.
Setting: Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea
Cast: Lord Thurloe, Lady Thurloe, Ms Sloane, Albert, Tamara
Shoot: 3 days
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Indecent Expenditure has a baseline budget of £21,500. With your support, we can bring this satire to life — full crew, paid cast, and a complete post-production finish. Every coin makes it real.
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Select →Director's Statement
"As a lifelong Londoner, I have always enjoyed taking day trips to its most stunning areas. It has only been as an adult trying to pay my way in life that I have appreciated how gargantuanly expensive they really are. Recently, while strolling through Kensington, I began to fantasise about what sort of people could possibly afford to buy property there, and this fascination inspired me to develop a screenplay.
Added to my interest is my background as the child of housing lawyers, whose job is to help those on the opposite end of the social spectrum find homes. Our society produces an elite class of absentee owners while many live on the streets, and I feel passionate about illustrating this juxtaposition through cinema."
— Peter Leon Brookes, Writer & Director
Produced by Natalie Bark
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