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}