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A Cock and Bull Story (marketed in Australia, New Zealand and the United States as Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) is a 2005 British comedy film directed by Michael Winterbottom. It is a film-within-a-film, featuring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as egotistical actors during the making of a screen adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 18th century metafictional novel Tristram Shandy. Gillian Anderson and Keeley Hawes also play themselves in addition to their Tristram Shandy roles. Since the book is about a man attempting but failing to write his autobiography, the film takes the form of being about failing to make the film.
Original Release
07/17/2005
US Release
07/17/2005
Cast
Name | Character |
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Steve Coogan | Steve Coogan / Tristram Shandy / Walter Shandy |
Rob Brydon | Rob Brydon / Capt. Toby Shandy / Toby Shandy |
Keeley Hawes | Keeley Hawes / Elizabeth / Elizabeth Shandy |
Shirley Henderson | Susannah / Shirley Henderson |
Raymond Waring | Trim |
Conal Murphy | Young Tristram Shandy - Age 6 / Six-Year-Old Tristam |
Joe Williams | Young Tristram Shandy - Age 9 / Nine-Year-Old Tristam |
Paul Kynman | Obadiah |
Mark Tandy | London Doctor |
Mary Healey | Midwife |
Directors
Writers
Laurence Sterne, Frank Cottrell Boyce
Cast
Name | Character |
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Steve Coogan | Steve Coogan / Tristram Shandy / Walter Shandy |
Rob Brydon | Rob Brydon / Capt. Toby Shandy / Toby Shandy |
Keeley Hawes | Keeley Hawes / Elizabeth / Elizabeth Shandy |
Shirley Henderson | Susannah / Shirley Henderson |
Raymond Waring | Trim |
Conal Murphy | Young Tristram Shandy - Age 6 / Six-Year-Old Tristam |
Joe Williams | Young Tristram Shandy - Age 9 / Nine-Year-Old Tristam |
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 |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jeff Abberley | Executive Producer |
Julia Blackman | Executive Producer |
Henry Normal | Executive Producer |
Kate Ogborn | Executive Producer |
Tracey Scoffield | Executive Producer |
David M. Thompson | Executive Producer |
Wendy Brazington | Producer |
Andrew Eaton | Producer |
Anita Overland | Producer |