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Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
  • Caption: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
  • Description: Two actors, as their make up is applied, talk about the size of their parts. Then into the film: Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, Tristram Shandy, a fictive autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. The film tracks between "Shandy" and behind the scenes. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses. The lead's girlfriend, with their infant son, is up from London for the night, wanting sex; interruptions are constant. Scenes are shot, re-shot, and discarded. The purpose of the project is elusive. Fathers and sons; men and women; cocks and bulls. Life is amorphous, too full and too rich to be captured in one narrative.

    Directed by
    Michael Winterbottom

    Writing credits
    Laurence Sterne (novel "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy")


    Frank Cottrell Boyce (screenplay) (as Martin Hardy)



    Cast (in credits order)

    Steve Coogan ... Tristram Shandy / Walter Shandy / Steve Coogan

    Rob Brydon ... Capt. Toby Shandy / Rob Brydon
    Keeley Hawes ... Elizabeth

    Shirley Henderson ... Susannah
    Raymond Waring ... Trim

    Conal Murphy ... Young Tristram Shandy - Age 6
    Joe Williams ... Young Tristram Shandy - Age 9

    Paul Kynman ... Obadiah
    Mark Tandy ... London Doctor

    Mary Healey ... Midwife

    Dylan Moran ... Dr. Slop
    Jack Shepherd ... Surgeon
    David Walliams ... Parson

    Jeremy Northam ... Mark
    Benedict Wong ... Ed

    Naomie Harris ... Jennie
    Claire Keelan ... Make-up Assistant

    Kelly Macdonald ... Jenny
    Mark Hadfield ... Leo
    Elizabeth Berrington ... Debbie
    Mark Williams ... Ingoldsby
    Jenny Ogilvie ... Sandy
    Tony Wilson ... TV Interviewer (as Anthony H. Wilson)
    Justine Mitchell ... Tony's Director
    Kieran O'Brien ... Gary
    Roger Allam ... Adrian

    Ashley Jensen ... Lindsey
    James Fleet ... Simon
    Ian Hart ... Joe
    Ronni Ancona ... Anita
    Greg Wise ... Greg
    Paul Rider ... Prop Guy

    Stephen Fry ... Patrick Curator / Parson Yorick

    Sara Stewart ... Joanna

    Gillian Anderson ... Widow Wadman
    Stephen Rodrick ... New York Times Reporter
    Stuart Wilson ... Sound Mixer
    Rosie Cavaliero ... Rachel
    rest of cast listed alphabetically:
    Peter Bach ... Visual Effects Supervisor (uncredited)
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  • Movie: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
  • Id: 10847660
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