Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

107 mins | Comedy | March 31, 1983

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.

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

107 mins | Comedy | March 31, 1983

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.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Universal Pictures, Celandine Films, The Monty Python Partnership
Original title Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Directors Terry Jones
Writers Eric Idle, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam

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")

Mark Holmes

as Severed head

Valerie Whittington

as Mrs. Moore

Jennifer Franks

as Bride

Imogen Bickford-Smith

as Nurse #2

Angela Mann

as Second guest's wife

Matt Frewer

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

Michael Caine

as British Soldier (segment "Fighting Each Other")