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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

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.
Mar 31, 1983 1h 47m
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Synopsis

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.

Title Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Companies Celandine Films, The Monty Python Partnership, Universal Pictures
Countries United Kingdom
Keywords sense of life, comedian, satire, sketch, breaking the fourth wall, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger, vignette, the meaning of life, anarchic comedy
Terry Gilliam

Terry Gilliam

Various Roles
Graham Chapman

Graham Chapman

Various Roles
John Cleese

John Cleese

Various Roles
Eric Idle

Eric Idle

Various Roles
Terry Jones

Terry Jones

Various Roles
Michael Palin

Michael Palin

Various Roles
Carol Cleveland

Carol Cleveland

Various Roles
Patricia Quinn

Patricia Quinn

Mrs. Williams
Judy Loe

Judy Loe

Nurse #1
Andrew Bicknell

Andrew Bicknell

(Segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")
Mark Holmes

Mark Holmes

Severed head
Angela Mann

Angela Mann

Second guest's wife
Sydney Arnold

Sydney Arnold

Pirate Captain (segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")
Guy Bertrand

Guy Bertrand

Chief Executive (segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")
Matt Frewer

Matt Frewer

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

Michael Caine

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

Barrie Holland

Teacher At Rugby Match (uncredited)
Jane Leeves

Jane Leeves

Dancer (uncredited)