A Cock and Bull Story
| A Cock and Bull Story | |
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| Directed by | Michael Winterbottom |
| Screenplay by | Martin Hardy |
| Based on | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne |
| Produced by | Andrew Eaton |
| Starring | Steve Coogan Rob Brydon Keeley Hawes Shirley Henderson Dylan Moran Jeremy Northam Naomie Harris Kelly Macdonald James Fleet Ian Hart Gillian Anderson |
| Cinematography | Marcel Zyskind |
| Edited by | Peter Christelis |
| Music by | Michael Nyman Nino Rota |
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| Distributed by | Redbus Film Distribution |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $4.7 million |
| Box office | $3.9 million |
A Cock and Bull Story (marketed in Australia, New Zealand and the United States as Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, and also credited as such) is a 2005 British comedy film directed by Michael Winterbottom. It is a film-within-a-film, featuring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as egotistical actors during the making of a screen adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 18th-century metafictional novel Tristram Shandy. Gillian Anderson and Keeley Hawes also play themselves in addition to their Tristram Shandy roles. Since the book is about a man attempting but failing to write his autobiography, the film takes the form of being about failing to make the film.