Monty Python's 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.
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.
- Director
- Terry Jones
- Worldwide
- $43M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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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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The record
Awards
1 win
Cannes Film Festival
1 win
- WinnerCannes Film Festival Grand Prix
The numbers
Box Office & Release
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life returned 4.7× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $9M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $43M
- Release date
- Mar 31, 1983
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
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