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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.

1983•1h 47m•7.3/10
Comedy

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7.3/10(2K)

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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Production

Celandine Films, The Monty Python Partnership

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

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

Simon Jones

Simon Jones

Cedric

Patricia Quinn

Patricia Quinn

Mrs. Williams

Judy Loe

Judy Loe

Nurse #1

Andrew Bicknell

Andrew Bicknell

(Segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")

Andrew MacLachlan

Andrew MacLachlan

Groom

Mark Holmes

Severed head

Valerie Whittington

Mrs. Moore

Jennifer Franks

Bride

Imogen Bickford-Smith

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

Matt Frewer

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

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