Movie
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1983-03-31
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Celandine Films, The Monty Python Partnership
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
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
- Andrew Bicknell as (Segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")
- Andrew MacLachlan as Groom
Crew
- Terry Jones - Director
- Graham Chapman - Screenplay
- Terry Gilliam - Screenplay
- Michael Palin - Screenplay
- Terry Jones - Screenplay
- Eric Idle - Screenplay
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