Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

7.3IMDb Score
Released:1983-03-31
Genre:Comedy
Duration:107 min
Country:United Kingdom
Director:Terry Jones
Actors:Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones
Production:Celandine Films, The Monty Python Partnership

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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