A Cock and Bull Story

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A Cock and Bull Story
Film poster
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
Production companies	BBC Films Baby Cow Productions EM Media East Midlands Media Initiative Revolution Films Scion Films
Distributed by	Redbus Film Distribution (United Kingdom) Picturehouse/Newmarket Films (North America)
Release dates	17 July 2005 (2005-07-17) (Cambridge Film Festival) 20 January 2006 (2006-01-20) (United Kingdom)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$4.7 million[1]
Box office	$3.9 million[2]

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.