The Chain

The inevitable tribulations of moving day are brought to the screen in this funny British offering. The title comes from the sequence of upwardly mobile moves in Greater London, each hinging on the current tenants moving along, and each vignette taking as its theme one of the seven deadly sins. Norville moves out of his mother's house to set up housekeeping with his girl friend in Tufnell Park. Out of that flat are moving Wolf and Lawson, a young married couple moving up to a flat in Willesden. That apartment is being vacated by Troughton and Logan, who are buying their first house in Hammersmith, which is currently inhabited by the miserly Hawthorne and his wife, ...