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Bookmark this pageThe Chain (1984)
Director: Jack Gold
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Tracing seven interconnected house moves all scheduled for the same day, this borrows its circular storyline from La Ronde while swapping that film's continental obsession with sex for the peculiarly British ones of property and class. The strengths of this old-fashioned, rather parochial picture lie in writer Jack Rosenthal's ear for the absurd undercurrents of everyday speech, and the solid cast of character actors. But its weak links are the grand philosophical pretensions that have each household standing for one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and Mitchell's genial removal man musing benignly on the Great Chain of Being.Author: SJo
Cast & crew
Director: Jack Gold
Producer: Victor Glynn
Cast: Bernard Hill, Leo McKern, Billie Whitelaw, Phyllis Logan, Warren Mitchell, Maurice Denham, Anna Massey, Nigel Hawthorne full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 100 mins
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