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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

Comedy

It took God six days to create the heavens and the earth...and Monty Python ninety minutes to screw it up.

Release Date: 1983, March 31
Directors: Terry Jones
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Celandine Films, The Monty Python Partnership
Cast: Michael Caine, Andrew Bicknell, John Cleese, Matt Frewer, Eric Idle, Simon Jones, Michael Palin, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones, Carol Cleveland, Andrew MacLachlan, Patricia Quinn

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.

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