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The Meaning of Life (1983)

US:: R UK:: 15 Comedy

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.

Updated May 9 2020

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Runtime: 107 mins Budget: $9,000,000 Rating: 7.4 Tag Line: It took God six days to create the earth, and Monty Python just 90 minutes to screw it up.

Cast

Terry Gilliam

Diverse Rollen

Michael Palin

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John Cleese

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Terry Jones

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Eric Idle

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Graham Chapman

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Carol Cleveland

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Patricia Quinn

Mrs. Williams