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Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
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Tristram Shandy film poster
Directed byMichael Winterbottom
Written byLaurence Sterne
(novel),
Frank Cottrell Boyce
(as Martin Hardy)
Produced byAndrew Eaton
StarringSteve Coogan,
Rob Brydon
CinematographyMarcel Zyskind
Music byMichael Nyman
Distributed byRedbus (UK)
Picturehouse (USA)
Release dates
January 20, 2006
Running time
94 minutes
LanguageEnglish

A Cock and Bull Story (released in the United States and Australia as Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story) is a 2006 British comedy directed by Michael Winterbottom. It is a film-within-a-film, with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as the egotistical lead and "co-lead" actors in an adaptation of the novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne. It was released on both region 1 and region 2 DVD in July 2006.

Most of the film is devoted to the 'frame' story about the two competing actors. The parts of the novel that are covered by the film are limited to the story of Tristram's conception, birth and christening; Uncle Toby's experiences at the battle of Namur; Tristram's sudden and accidental circumcision at the age of three; and the concluding scene of the novel, wherein Yorick says "It is a story about a Cock and a Bull - and the best of its kind that ever I heard!"

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