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, a fictive 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.

Starring:

Andy Callaghan, Ashley Jensen, Benedict Wong, David Walliams, Dylan Moran, Elizabeth Berrington, Gillian Anderson, Greg Wise, Ian Hart, Jack Shepherd, James Fleet, Jeremy Northam, Joe Williams, Justine Mitchell, Keeley Hawes, Kelly Macdonald, Kieran O'Brien, Mark Hadfield, Mark Tandy, Mark Williams, Mary Healey, Naomie Harris, Paul Kynman, Paul Rider, P

Genre:

Comedy