Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

It took God six days to create the heavens and the earth...and Monty Python ninety minutes to screw it up.

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.

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  • Release Date: 1983-03-31
  • Runtime: 1h 47min
  • Director: Terry Jones

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  • Trailer

    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

    • Mark Holmes

      Severed head

    • Valerie Whittington

      Mrs. Moore

    • Jennifer Franks

      Bride

    • Imogen Bickford-Smith

      Nurse #2

    • Angela Mann

      Second guest's wife

    • Sydney Arnold

      Pirate Captain (segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")

    • Guy Bertrand

      Chief Executive (segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")

    • Matt Frewer

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

    • Michael Caine

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

    • Jane Leeves

      Dancer (uncredited)

    • Luke Baxter

      Dancer

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