Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story (2005)
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Critic Consensus: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon add madcap, knowing performances to the mix, and the result is a fun, postmodern romp.
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Cast
as Tristram Shandy/Walter Shandy/Steve Coogan
as Toby Shandy/Rob Brydon
as Elizabeth Shandy/Keeley Hawes
as Susannah/Shirley Henderson
as Dr. Slop/Dylan Moran
as Mark
as Jenny
as Joe
as St. Patrick Curator/Parson Yorick
as Widow Wadman/Gillian Anderson
as Trim
as Tristam Shandy (age 6)
as Tristam Shandy (age 9)
as Obadiah
as London Doctor
as Midwife
as Surgeon
as Parson
as Ed
as Jennie
as Make-up Assistant
as Leo
as Debbie
as Ingoldsby
as Sandy
as TV Interviewer
as Tony's Director
as Gary
as Adrian
as Lindsey
as Simon
as Anita
as Greg
as Prop Guy
as Joanna
as New York Times Reporter
as Sound Mixer
as Rachel
as Hotel Reception Manager
as Barman
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Critic Reviews for Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story
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Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story is a hall of mirrors that doesn't tease the brain (it's easier to watch than to read about) so much as goose it into submission.
[Michael Winterbottom's] goofy, messy version of Tristram Shandy puts the Fellini back in 'Fellini-esque.'
A wildly imaginative foray into spirited comic anarchy.
A Cock and Bull Story is a grand giggle of a film, well worth your time and money and a game well played for the audience.
A hilariously clever picture about the making of a movie that no one will have the slightest interest in. For an experiment about an experiment, it's entirely too much fun.
Probably the best-known but-I-digress novel in English literature, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, has inspired Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, surely the best but-I-digress movie this side of Adaptation.
Audience Reviews for Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story
'Tristram Shandy' is a great deal less clever than it thinks it is.
Super Reviewer
Having seen and fell in love with The Trip first, it was fun to spend more time with characters that I had come to know and love. On top of being a smart and layered film, Coogan and Brydon continue to give the audience their patented witty passive-aggressive banter. While I did not find myself sick with laughter in the same ways as i was with The Trip, it is still very funny. If you love the characters in all of their humor and misery, then this film is for you.
Super Reviewer
When did British comedy become boring? My guess. Sometime around this film's release. There's an average human drama subplot, but the rest is pretty stuck up [their own a***] comedy.
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