'''''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.
This film, and the novel from which it is adapted, are both examples of metafiction.
In the United States, the film was released as '''''Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story'''''.
Cast
*Steve Coogan – Tristram Shandy/Walter Shandy/Steve Coogan*Rob Brydon – Captain Toby Shandy/Rob Brydon
*Keeley Hawes – Elizabeth Shandy/Keeley Hawes
*Shirley Henderson – Susannah/Shirley Henderson
*Gillian Anderson – Widow Wadman/Gillian Anderson
*Dylan Moran – Dr. Slop/Dylan Moran
*David Walliams – Curate
*Stephen Fry – Parson Yorick/Patrick Curator
*Jeremy Northam – Mark (director)
*Ian Hart – Joe (writer)
*James Fleet – Simon (producer)
*Naomie Harris – Jennie
*Kelly Macdonald – Jenny
External links
*Official site (U.K.)*Official site (U.S.)
* Seamus Sweeney Give us a real adaptation of Tristram Shandy rather than another film about film-making: Michael Winterbottom's A Cock and Bull Story Social Affairs Unit Web Review, February 2006
*Slant Magazine Film Review by Keith Uhlich
