Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-01-20

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (10931 Reviews)

Director:

Michael Winterbottom

Genres:

Comedy Drama

Cast:

Steve Coogan Rob Brydon Keeley Hawes Shirley Henderson

Writer:

Laurence Sterne (novel)

Frank Cottrell Boyce (screenplay)

Fullplot:

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.