Monty Python's the Meaning of Life (1983)
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.
107 min
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.
- Release date
- March 31, 1983
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Music
- John Du Prez
- Budget
- $9,000,000
- Box office
- $42,749,697
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Trailer
Soundtrack
- Intro (The Meaning of Life) · Monty Python0:19
- Fish (Morning) · Monty Python0:29
- The Meaning of Life · Monty Python2:12
- Part One: The Miracle of Birth · Monty Python3:27
- Frying Eggs · Monty Python0:35
- Part Two: The Third World (Yorkshire) (Every Sperm Is Sacred) · Monty Python6:28
- Bloody Catholics · Monty Python2:38
- The Adventures of Martin Luther · Monty Python0:19
- Part Three: Growth and Learning · Monty Python4:39
- Part Four: Fighting Each Other · Monty Python3:04
- The Great Tea of 1914-18 · Monty Python0:44
- Fish · Monty Python0:19
Cast
- Terry Gilliam as Window Washer
- Graham Chapman as Chairman
- John Cleese as Fish #2
- Eric Idle as Gunther
- Terry Jones as Bert
- Michael Palin as Window Washer
- Carol Cleveland as Beefeater Waitress
- Simon Jones as Chadwick
- Patricia Quinn as Mrs. Williams
- Judy Loe as Nurse #1
- Andrew Bicknell as (Segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")
- Mark Holmes as Severed head
- Valerie Whittington as Mrs. Moore
- Guy Bertrand as Chief Executive (segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")
- Matt Frewer as Cornered Executive who Jumps (segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")
- Michael Caine as British Soldier (uncredited) (segment "Fighting Each Other")
- Jane Leeves as Dancer (uncredited)
- John Cleese as Dr. Spencer
- John Cleese as Humphrey Williams
- Terry Gilliam as Fish #4
- Terry Gilliam as Walters
- Eric Idle as Fish #3
- Eric Idle as 'Meaning of Life' Singer
- Terry Jones as Fish #6
- Terry Jones as Mum
- Graham Chapman as Fish #1
- Graham Chapman as Doctor
- Michael Palin as Harry
- Michael Palin as Fish #5
- Carol Cleveland as Wife of Guest #1
- Carol Cleveland as Leaf Mother
- Simon Jones as Jeremy Portland-Smythe
Crew
- Terry Jones · Director
- Graham Chapman · Writer
- John Cleese · Writer
- Terry Gilliam · Writer
- Eric Idle · Writer
- John Goldstone · Producer
- John Du Prez · Composer
- Peter Hannan · Cinematographer
- Roger Pratt · Cinematographer
- Julian Doyle · Editor
- Michelle Guish · Casting director
- Debbie McWilliams · Casting director
- Harry Lange · Production designer