A Cock and Bull Story (2006)
- Directed by
- Michael Winterbottom
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 151 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A film crew tries to adapt a famously unfilmable 18th century novel. The movie shows the egotistical actors and the chaotic production as they fail to actually make the film.
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What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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