The Franchise Club (2018)

Great Britain, 1918: The Suffragettes were fighting for the right to vote (an equal franchise). For years, the Suffragette movement had been campaigning with very little success. By 1903, the activists decided that the movement would have to become militant and radical if it was going to be effective. Property damage, acid attacks, and hunger strikes were countered with jailing and force feeding by the authorities. By 1918, the government decided that a compromise would have to be made between the governing bodies and the Suffragettes, in order to calm the movement's actions. This film is surrounding this discussion. A fictional drama where the three arguably most influential people of their time (Henry Asquith - Prime Minister; Lloyd George - British Chancellor; Lord Northcliffe - Owner of The Daily Mail and The Daily Mirror;) meet with the three leading Suffragettes (Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst) to discuss the possibility of creating an equal franchise. Sylvia, does movements not agree with the movements violence, whereas Emmeline and Christabel have attended this meeting for the sole purpose of creating an equal franchise at the earliest opportunity. As for The Prime Minister, Lloyd George and Lord Northcliffe, they're intentions are less than ideal for Suffragettes, and with all 6 individuals having their own motives for attending the meeting, conversations begin to get out of hand. But what if the gender roles were reversed? What if women were the dominant gender and men were fighting for the right to vote? This film features all characters, playing their opposite gender. The male roles are played by the female cast members and female roles are played by the male cast to highlight the sexist absurdities of the 20th century, many of which are ongoing issues of modern society.