A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
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ThumbScore
👍 67%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 84%
(RT: 88%, MC: 80) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Keeley Hawes as Elizabeth Shandy / Keeley Hawes
Raymond Waring as Trim
Conal Murphy as Six-Year-Old Tristam
Joe Williams as Nine-Year-Old Tristam
Paul Kynman as Obadiah
Is A Cock and Bull Story good?
It's divisive. 67% audience score, estimated from 157 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 84%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
