A Cock and Bull Story (2005)DVD VHS | Cast list | | Steve Coogan | as | Tristram Shandy/Walter Shandy/Steve Coogan | | Rob Brydon | as | Capt. Toby Shandy/Rob Brydon | | Keeley Hawes | as | Elizabeth | | Shirley Henderson | as | Susannah | | Raymond Waring | as | Trim | | Conal Murphy | as | Young Tristram Shandy - Age 6 | | Joe Williams | as | Young Tristram Shandy - Age 9 | | Paul Kynman | as | Obadiah | | Mark Tandy | as | London Doctor | | Mary Healey | as | Midwife | | Dylan Moran | as | Dr. Slop | | Jack Shepherd | as | Surgeon | | David Walliams | as | Parson | | Jeremy Northam | as | Mark | | Benedict Wong | as | Ed |
| | Crew list: | | Michael Winterbottom (Director) | | Laurence Sterne (Writer) | | Frank Cottrell Boyce (Writer) |
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Review
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. |
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