

A Cock and Bull Story
Because everyone loves an accurate period piece.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- —
- Box office
- $3.9M
- Language
- English
- based on novel or book
- film in film
- filmmaking
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR17 Jul 2005
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1530 Dec 2005
- TVBBC Two19 Aug 2007
FranceFR
- Theatrical5 Jul 2006
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT1520 Jan 2006
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A Cock and Bull Story was released on 17 July 2005.
Audience reviews
1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/2/2024
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…
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