A Cock and Bull Story

2005

Action / Comedy

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 88% · 128 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 66% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 13711 13.7K

actor loose adaptation based on novel or book film in film filmmaking

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Plot summary

Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" being filmed at a stately home. He constantly spars with actor Rob Brydon, who is playing Uncle Toby and believes his role to be of equal importance to Coogan's.

Director

Michael Winterbottom Photo
Michael Winterbottom

Top cast

Kelly Macdonald Photo
Kelly Macdonald as Jenny
Gillian Anderson Photo
Gillian Anderson as Widow Wadman
Benedict Wong Photo
Benedict Wong as Ed
Naomie Harris Photo
Naomie Harris as Jennie
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864.3 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
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1.57 GB
1920*800
English 2.0
R
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23.976 fps
1 hr 34 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

This isn't really a film about a story

This isn't really a film about a story with a beginning, middle or, even, an end. It's more a film about a book being turned into a film, and about how that all pans out with the actors in and out of character throughout. It's Steve Coogan who takes on the title role in a film about a landed character from Georgian England who is determined to make his mark by writing a novel about himself. Thing is, his life is just too rich and varied. He is just so interesting that he can't fit everything it... Meantime, the production crew are facing all of the issues in trying to make the film, reconcile the ambitions and peccadilloes of the cast, the writers, visiting family, bits on the side and a particularly Darwinian sort of special effect. Jeremy Northam features sparingly as real-life director Peter Winterbottom (who always looked so completely fed up when doing publicity for this) and the story flows at it's most naturally when it's just him, Coogan, Ian Hart and the man vying for (alphabetically) top billing - Rob Brydon. It's when they decide that one of the characters - the "Widow Wadman" needs to be written back in, and they discover madam "X-files" herself (Gillian Anderson) is going to come and play the part, that Brydon gets all excitable and the film starts to become a little bit too much like a farce. Still, it's an enjoyable introspective on actors, writers, directors - throughout the ages, offering us ninety minutes of characterful fun, babies screeching and copious vodka and tonics.
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Reviewed by barnaby-7 7 / 10

Wonderful!

One of the funniest and strangest films about the film-making process, this is less an adaptation of the novel, more a focused and hilarious deconstruction on Winterbottom's working methods. Coogan and Brydon are fantastic. The scene with Coogan and a hot chestnut down his trousers is worth the price of admission alone! Although the film may not be to everyone's taste - it darts around and has little respect for narrative logic or continuity (as does the book), it is a freeform little gem that really does cement Winterbottom's reputation as the most exciting British director out there. Any person who can make In This World, Code 46, 9 Songs and then this in a row is worthy of respect.

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