John Chard
Round the houses the writers go.
A film spin off from the hugely popular British situation comedy of the same name, it stars Richard OSullivan, Paula Wilcox, Sally Thomsett, Yootha Joyce and Brian Murphy. When a development company tries to buy all the houses in their street, flatmates Robin, Chrissy and Jo decide to help their landlords in staving off the buy out.
The material here is sadly too thin that it wastes what was always a damn fine cast. The sexy spark between Robin and the two girls is still there, and Mildreds (Joyce) sexual frustration with hubby George (Murphy) continues; with an interesting twist added a films culmination, yet its all very tired and short on laughs. You know you are trouble when you have to resort to a...