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Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story

Rating:R (for language and sexual content)
Genre:Comedy
Release Date:January 27, 2006
Running time:94 minutes
Cast:Steve Coogan, Roger Allam, Gillian Anderson, Elizabeth Berrington, Rob Brydon
Director:Michael Winterbottom
Producer:Andrew Eaton
Writer:Martin Hardy
Distributor:Picturehouse

Description: Flipping back and forth between the 18th century and the hapless efforts of the 21st century filmakers, 'Tristram Shandy' 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 first assistant director calls cut, marking the end of a filming day on the. 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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