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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

7.311/101973 Reviews1983

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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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.

Release Date	1983-03-31
Language:	EN
Budget:	$9,000,000.00
Revenue:	$42,749,697.00
Duration:	107 mins
Status:	Released
Genres:	Comedy

Casts

Terry Gilliam ( Various Roles )

Graham Chapman ( Various Roles )

John Cleese ( Various Roles )

Eric Idle ( Various Roles )

Terry Jones ( Various Roles )

Michael Palin ( Various Roles )

Carol Cleveland ( Various Roles )

Simon Jones ( Cedric )

Patricia Quinn ( Mrs. Williams )

Judy Loe ( Nurse #1 )

Andrew Bicknell ( (Segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance") )

Andrew MacLachlan ( Groom )

Mark Holmes ( Severed head )

Valerie Whittington ( Mrs. Moore )

Jennifer Franks ( Bride )

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

Michael Caine ( British Soldier (uncredited) (segment "Fighting Each Other") )

Jane Leeves ( Dancer (uncredited) )

Luke Baxter ( Dancer )

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Terry Jones Director

John Du Prez Original Music Composer

Debbie McWilliams Casting

Michelle Guish Casting

Harry Lange Production Design

John Goldstone Producer

John Cleese Screenplay

Eric Idle Screenplay

Graham Chapman Screenplay

Michael Palin Screenplay

Terry Gilliam Screenplay

Terry Jones Screenplay

Julian Doyle Editor

Peter Hannan Director of Photography

Roger Pratt Director of Photography

Sharon Cartwright Set Decoration

James Acheson Costume Design

David Wimbury Production Manager

John Beard Art Direction

Richard Dawking Art Direction

Mary Hillman Makeup Department Head

Simon Wakefield Set Decoration

Arlene Phillips Choreographer

David Appleby Still Photographer

Chuck Finch Gaffer

Callum McDougall Third Assistant Director