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Tristram Shandy [digital videodisc] : a cock & bull story / a Picturehouse/Newmarket release ; BBC Films presents in association with EM Media, Revolution Films ; a Revolution Films production in association with Baby Cow Productions, produced with Scion Films ; a Michael Winterbottom film.

[New York, NY.] : HBO Video, c2006.

Fiction -- Authorship -- Drama.

Motion pictures -- Production and direction -- Drama.

Motion pictures, British.

1 videodisc (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Two actors, as their make up is applied, talk about the size of their parts. Then into the film: Laurence Sterne's unfilmable novel, Tristram Shandy, an autobiography wherein the narrator, interrupted constantly, takes the entire story to be born. The film tracks between "Shandy" and behind the scenes. Size matters: parts, egos, shoes, noses. The lead's girlfriend, with their infant son, is up from London for the night, wanting sex; interruptions are constant. Scenes are shot, re-shot, and discarded. The purpose of the project is elusive. Fathers and sons; men and women; cocks and bulls. Life is amorphous, too full and too rich to be captured in one narrative.

M - Suitable for mature audiences 16 years and over. Note: Contains offensive language and sexual references.

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