Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

1983 PG-13 1h 47m

7.3 /10

2.1K

Genre

Comedy

Plot

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

Writers

John Cleese Eric Idle Graham Chapman

Stars

Terry Gilliam Graham Chapman John Cleese

Cast & Crew

(Segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")

Imogen Bickford-Smith

Pirate Captain (segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")

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Guy Bertrand

Chief Executive (segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")

Matt Frewer

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

Michael Caine

British Soldier (uncredited) (segment "Fighting Each Other")

5 Nov 2025

## **Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) Review: A Glorious, Unflinching 10/10 Finale** If *Holy Grail* was a medieval romp and *Life of Bria...

Geronimo1967

25 Feb 2025

Well, I suppose if anyone was ever going to be able to get to grips with the meaning of life, it was going to be the “Monty Python” lads but for me th...

FilipeManuelNeto

8 May 2023

**I expected much more: this film is a shadow of what it should have been.** I think it's redundant to say what everyone already knows: the Monty P...

Ruuz

12 Apr 2019

Doesn't hold up as well as some of Monty Python's other work, but there's enough classic moments in here to make it worthwhile watching. _Final rat...