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 · R
Comedy
Directed by
Terry Jones
,
Terry Gilliam
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.
Director and cast
- Terry Jones Director
- Terry Gilliam Director
- Terry Gilliam as Diverse Rollen
- Graham Chapman as Diverse Rollen
- John Cleese as Diverse Rollen
- Eric Idle as Diverse Rollen
- Terry Jones as Diverse Rollen
- Michael Palin as Diverse Rollen
- Carol Cleveland as Diverse Rollen
- Simon Jones as Cedric
- Patricia Quinn as Mrs. Williams
- Judy Loe as Nurse #1
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