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A Cock and Bull Story
UNITED KINGDOM · 2005

A Cock and Bull Story

Michael Winterbottom
film production literary adaptation actor egos creative conflict meta-commentary
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Synopsis

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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