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.

Movie rating: 6.7 / 10 (12707)

Directed by: Michael Winterbottom - Laurence Sterne - Frank Cottrell Boyce

Writer credits: Laurence Sterne - Frank Cottrell Boyce

Cast: Steve Coogan - Rob Brydon - Keeley Hawes - Shirley Henderson - Raymond Waring

AKA: A Cock and Bull Story, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Tristram Shandy: Une histoire sans queue ni tête

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