A Cock And Bull Story

A Cock And Bull Story

2005

A metafictional comedy in which the filming of a Laurence Sterne novel adaptation is constantly derailed by its own impossible complexity, the egos of its cast, and the chaos of film-making itself. Directed by Michael Winterbottom and starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon.

Director

  • Michael Winterbottom

Cast

  • Steve Coogan
  • Rob Brydon
  • Stephen Fry
  • Shirley Henderson
  • Raymond Waring
  • Dylan Moran
  • David Walliams
  • Jeremy Northam
  • Kelly Macdonald
  • Ashley Jensen
  • James Fleet
  • Gillian Anderson

Filming Locations

  • Blickling Hall

    Blickling Hall supplied exterior shots including nighttime carriage arrivals, with its stately Jacobean facade enhancing the film's 18th-century aristocratic atmosphere.

  • Deene Park

    Deene Park was one of the Northamptonshire country houses used as a filming location for the 18th-century mansion sequences.

  • Felbrigg Hall

    Felbrigg Hall was used for period interiors and gardens, providing opulent 18th-century rooms for family scenes and walled gardens for the meta-fictional film-within-a-film framing.

  • Gunthorpe Hall

    Gunthorpe Hall was among the Norfolk country houses used as a filming location for the period mansion scenes in the Tristram Shandy adaptation.

  • Heydon Hall

    Heydon Hall was used for entrance and approach sequences in the film, its Elizabethan architecture blending with the period and meta-modern storyline.

  • Kirby Hall

    Kirby Hall, the part-ruined Elizabethan mansion, was used as an exterior filming location for the 18th-century country house scenes.

  • Lamport Hall

    Lamport Hall was used as a filming location for period house sequences, one of several Northamptonshire estates featured in the production.

  • Shandy Hall

    Shandy Hall in Coxwold, the historic home of author Laurence Sterne, was used for the final scene featuring Stephen Fry as Parson Yorick, providing an authentic literary connection to the source novel.