Because everyone loves an accurate period piece.
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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Character
Cool, ironic, comic and intimate.
- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- warmbleak
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Cast
- Steve CooganTristram Shandy / Walter Shandy / Steve Coogan
- Rob BrydonToby Shandy / Rob Brydon
- Keeley HawesElizabeth Shandy / Keeley Hawes
- Shirley HendersonSusannah / Shirley Henderson
- Raymond WaringTrim
- Conal MurphySix-Year-Old Tristam
- Joe WilliamsNine-Year-Old Tristam
- Paul KynmanObadiah
- Mark TandyLondon Doctor
- Dylan MoranDr. Slop
Crew
- Michael WinterbottomDirector
- Frank Cottrell BoyceWriter
- Laurence SterneNovel
- Marcel ZyskindDirector of Photography
- Edward NogriaOriginal Music Composer
- Peter ChristelisEditor
- Andrew EatonProducer
- Martin HardyProducer
- Wendy BrazingtonProducer
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Pairings
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Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
Annie Hall 197760% alikeBoth comic, intimate, character-led.
What We Do in the Shadows 201458% alikeBoth comic, cool, ironic; this one is more resolved.
Waiting for Guffman 199757% alikeBoth comic, ironic, cool.
The Big Lebowski 199855% alikeBoth comic, cool, open-ended.
Both cool, comic, warm; this one is more unpretentious.
Beat the Devil 195354% alikeBoth cool, comic, ironic; this one is more classical in form.
Close across the board.
This Is Spinal Tap 198453% alikeBoth ironic, comic, cool; this one is more resolved.
Seinfeld 198960% alikeSeries · Both cool, comic, warm; this one is more classical in form.
The Office 200159% alikeSeries · Both comic, cool, intimate.
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