The Meaning of Life (1983)
It took God six days to create the earth, and Monty Python just 90 minutes to screw it up.
poster The Meaning of Life
IMDb Rating:
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7.5/10 (113139 votes)

Country:UK, 107 minutes

Spoken Languages:English

Genres:Comedy, Musical

Director(s):Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam

Video Codec:Unknown

Number: 905

Storyline:
Why are we here, what's it all about? The Monty Python team is trying to sort out the most important question on Earth: what is the meaning of life? They do so by exploring the various stages of life, starting with birth. A doctor seems more interested in his equipment than in delivering the baby or caring for the mother, a Roman Catholic couple have quite a lot of children because "every sperm is sacred". In the growing and learning part of life, Catholic schoolboys attend a rather strange church service and ditto sex education lesson. Onto war, where an officer's plan to attack is thwarted by his underlings wanting to celebrate his birthday, and an officer's leg is bitten off by presumably an African tiger. At middle age, a couple orders "philosophy" at a restaurant, after which, the movie continues with live organ transplants. The autumn years are played in a restaurant, which, after being treated to the song "Isn't It Awfully Nice to Have a Penis?" by an entertainer, sees the ...

Cast:

photo Graham Chapman
Graham Chapman Chairman
photo John Cleese
John Cleese Fish #2
photo Terry Gilliam
Terry Gilliam Window Washer
photo Eric Idle
Eric Idle Gunther
photo Terry Jones
Terry Jones Bert

Medium: Media file,

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