Director Michael Winterbottom and writer Frank Cottrell Boyce, perhaps the most creative team in British film today, produce a wickedly playful adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 1759 novel, "The Life and Opinions Tristram Shandy, Gentleman". Long deemed unfilmable, Stern'es story included apologies for "losing" chapters that later appeared in their entirety; stepping outside the narrative to address the reader; an all-black page to mourn the passing of one character and a blank page for the reader to fill in his own description of another character. The inspired screen version is a film about the making of a film based on a novel about the writing of a novel. A clever satire of movies, literature, and star egos, this engaging romp generates an almost delirious atmosphere of comedy.

94 minutes. Rated R.

"It sounds confusing, but it's really inventive and bizarre and marvelously entertaining." - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone