Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
1941 reviews
Comedy
1h 47m
1983
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National...
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Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
- DirectorTerry Jones
- Release31 March 1983
- GenreComedy
- Duration1h 47m
- Budget$9,000,000
- Revenue$15,000,000
- Rate1941 reviews
- Productions
Celandine Films, The Monty Python Partnership, Universal Pictures
Cast

Terry Gilliam
Various Roles

Graham Chapman
Various Roles

John Cleese
Various Roles

Eric Idle
Various Roles

Terry Jones
Various Roles

Michael Palin
Various Roles

Carol Cleveland
Various Roles

Simon Jones
Cedric

Patricia Quinn
Mrs. Williams

Judy Loe
Nurse #1

Andrew Bicknell
(Segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")

Andrew MacLachlan
Groom

Imogen Bickford-Smith
Nurse #2

Matt Frewer
Cornered Executive who Jumps (segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")

Michael Caine
British Soldier (uncredited) (segment "Fighting Each Other")

Jane Leeves
Dancer (uncredited)
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