Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Name: Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1983
Cast: Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones

1983 · 1h47 · Film

Directed by Terry Jones

Starring Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Carol Cleveland, Simon Jones, Patricia Quinn, Judy Loe

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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.

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