Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

03/31/1983 1h 47m

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

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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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Cast Ages at Release

Terry Gilliam

as Various Roles

Born 11/22/1940, age

Graham Chapman

as Various Roles

Born 01/08/1941

Died 10/04/1989, age

John Cleese

as Various Roles

Born 10/27/1939, age

Eric Idle

as Various Roles

Born 03/29/1943, age

Terry Jones

as Various Roles

Born 02/01/1942

Died 01/21/2020, age

Michael Palin

as Various Roles

Born 05/05/1943, age

Patricia Quinn

as Mrs. Williams

Born 05/28/1944, age

Andrew Bicknell

as (Segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")

Born 06/17/1956, age

Matt Frewer

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

Born 01/04/1958, age

Michael Caine

as British Soldier (segment "Fighting Each Other")

Born 03/14/1933, age