Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

About Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

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.

Terry Jones's Monty Python's The Meaning of Life is a 1983 comedy film. It runs 107 minutes and was released in March 1983.

The film is filed under comedian, breaking the fourth wall, anarchic comedy, and vignette.

Terry Gilliam takes the lead as Various Roles, Graham Chapman as Various Roles, John Cleese as Various Roles, and Eric Idle as Various Roles. The screenplay is by Eric Idle and Graham Chapman. In the United States it streams on TCM.

Deadpool 2, Don't Look Up, and Deadpool & Wolverine make useful companions to Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, all filed under satire. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 2,196 votes and it carries a R rating.