Tristram Shandy - A Cock and Bull Story (DVD COPY w/ MENUS FULL

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Writers:

Laurence Sterne (novel)

Frank Cottrell Boyce (screenplay)



Cast

(Cast overview, first billed only)



Steve Coogan ... Tristram Shandy / Walter Shandy / Steve Coogan



Rob Brydon ... Capt. Toby Shandy / Rob Brydon

Keeley Hawes ... Elizabeth



Shirley Henderson ... Susannah

Raymond Waring ... Trim



Conal Murphy ... Young Tristram Shandy - Age 6

Joe Williams ... Young Tristram Shandy - Age 9



Paul Kynman ... Obadiah

Mark Tandy ... London Doctor



Mary Healey ... Midwife



Dylan Moran ... Dr. Slop

Jack Shepherd ... Surgeon

David Walliams ... Parson



Jeremy Northam ... Mark

Benedict Wong ... Ed





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. Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}