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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Dir. Terry Jones
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
“It took God six days to create the heavens and the earth...and Monty Python ninety minutes to screw it up.”
Comedy
Director
Terry Jones
Screenplay
John Cleese, Eric Idle
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.
Release
Mar 31, 1983
Budget
$9M
Revenue
$43M
Country
United Kingdom
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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