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A Cock and Bull Story is a British film of genre Drama directed by Michael Winterbottom released in USA on 17 july 2005 with Steve Coogan

A Cock and Bull Story (2005)

A Cock and Bull Story
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Released in USA 17 july 2005
Length 1h34
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Historical
Rating66% 3.347373.347373.347373.347373.34737

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.

Synopsis

A Cock and Bull Story depicts Steve Coogan playing himself as an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life. Coogan is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's, calling himself the "co-lead".

Actors

Steve Coogan

(Tristram Shandy / Walter Shandy / Steve Coogan)
Rob Brydon

(Toby Shandy / Rob Brydon)
Keeley Hawes

(Elizabeth Shandy / Keeley Hawes)
Shirley Henderson

(Susannah / Shirley Henderson)
Raymond Waring

(Trim)
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