Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

Directed by

Terry Jones

Genre

comedy film, musical film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

R

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 2,127 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This comedy film is a series of sketches about different stages of human life from birth to death. It jumps between jokes about sex, religion, and mortality without one clear story.

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What happens

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, also known simply as The Meaning of Life, is a 1983 British musical sketch comedy film written and performed by the Monty Python troupe, directed by Terry Jones. The Meaning of Life was the last feature film to star all six Python members before the death of Graham Chapman in 1989. Unlike Holy Grail and Life of Brian, the film's two predecessors, which each told a single, more-or-less coherent story, The Meaning of Life returned to the sketch format of the troupe's original television series and their first film from twelve years earlier, And Now for Something Completely Different, loosely structured as a series of comic sketches about the various stages of life. It was accompanied by the short film The Crimson Permanent Assurance. Released on 23 June 1983 in the United Kingdom, The Meaning of Life was not as acclaimed as its predecessors, but was still well received critically and was a minor box office success; the film grossed almost $43 million against a $9 million budget. It was screened at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix. The film appears in a 2010 list of the top 20 cult films published in The Boston Globe. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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