Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Last modified: Nov. 9, 2008

Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story

Starring: Steve Coogan • Rob Brydon • Keeley Hawes • Kelly MacDonald • Jeremy Northam

Screenwriter: Micael Winterbottom • Frank Cotterell Boyce

25% WILL SEE 75% WON'T SEE

Plot: Flipping back and forth between the 18th Century and the hapless efforts of the 21st Century filmakers, "A Cock and Bull Story" is the making of a movie adapted from the notoriously unfilmable English literature masterpiece, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Sahndy, Gentlemen," written by Laurence Sterne.

The story begins with Tristram Shandy (Steve Coogan) narrating his life story as he sees it. Crammed with literary jokes and dark humor, Shandy's warped childhood tales are constantly interrupted by his family and household, inadvertently revealing far more about himself than any conventional autobiography.

At the dramatic moment of Tristram's birth, the 1st Assistant Director calls cut, marking the end of a filming day on the set of Tristram Shandy. We then see Steve Coogan, the other actors and crew through the course of a chaotic evening on set. Steve Coogan's wife arrives with their six month old baby, a journalist is chasing him about a scandalous story, his agent has arrived with a load of Hollywood scripts and the film financiers are threatening to pull the plug.

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Steve Coogan
Tropic Thunder, Despicable Me 4
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Rob Brydon
Stitch Head, MirrorMask
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Keeley Hawes
The Bank Job, The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box
K
Kelly MacDonald
This Ordinary Thing, Brave
J
Jeremy Northam
The Invasion, A Late Quartet
J
James Fleet
Sense and Sensibility (30th Anniversary), The Phantom of the Opera
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Ian Hart
Marlowe, Escape From Pretoria
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Shirley Henderson
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, See How They Run
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Stephen Fry
This Ordinary Thing, Alice in Wonderland
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Gillian Anderson
TRON: Ares, White Bird

Dec 2004

Changed Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story movie production status. The movie is ready for release.

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Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story was released in on Friday, November 4 , 2005. There were six other movies released on the same date, including Jarhead, Chicken Little and Adam and Eve.