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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
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.
1983 · Directed by Terry Jones · 107 min · Comedy · 26 frames
Tagline
It took God six days to create the heavens and the earth...and Monty Python ninety minutes to screw it up.
Crew
- Screenplay: John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Michael Palin
- Cinematography: Peter Hannan, Roger Pratt
- Edited by: Julian Doyle
- Music: John Du Prez
- Production design: Harry Lange
- Produced by: John Goldstone
Cast
- Terry Gilliam as Various Roles
- Graham Chapman as Various Roles
- John Cleese as Various Roles
- Eric Idle as Various Roles
- Terry Jones as Various Roles
- Michael Palin as Various Roles
- Carol Cleveland as Various Roles
- Simon Jones as Cedric
- Patricia Quinn as Mrs. Williams
- Judy Loe as Nurse #1
Production
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Studios: Celandine Films, The Monty Python Partnership
- Budget: $9,000,000
- Box office: $42,749,697
- Themes: sense of life, comedian, satire, sketch, breaking the fourth wall, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger, vignette, the meaning of life, anarchic comedy
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