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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.
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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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.
More about Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Cast
Terry GilliamVarious Roles
Graham ChapmanVarious Roles
John CleeseVarious Roles
Eric IdleVarious Roles
Terry JonesVarious Roles
Michael PalinVarious Roles
Carol ClevelandVarious Roles
Simon JonesCedricCredits
- Directed by
- Terry Jones
- Written by
- Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman
Production details
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $9M
- Box office
- $42.7M
Production
- Celandine FilmsUnited Kingdom
- The Monty Python PartnershipUnited Kingdom
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