
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. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
Storyline
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.
Terry Gilliam
Various Roles
Graham Chapman
Various Roles
John Cleese
Various Roles
Eric Idle
Various Roles
Terry Jones
Various Roles
Michael Palin
Various Roles
Carol Cleveland
Various Roles
Simon Jones
Cedric
Patricia Quinn
Mrs. Williams
Judy Loe
Nurse #1
Andrew Bicknell
(Segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")
Andrew MacLachlan
Groom
Mark Holmes
Severed head
Valerie Whittington
Mrs. Moore
Jennifer Franks
Bride
Imogen Bickford-Smith
Nurse #2
Angela Mann
Second guest's wife
Sydney Arnold
Pirate Captain (segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")
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")
Barrie Holland
Teacher At Rugby Match (uncredited)
Jane Leeves
Dancer (uncredited)
Luke Baxter
Dancer
And Now for Something Completely Different
7.2Life of Brian
7.8Erik the Viking
5.9Jabberwocky
6.0Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
7.4The Crimson Permanent Assurance
7.1The Goonies
7.5Smokey and the Bandit
7.0Tideland
6.5Monty Python and the Holy Grail
7.8The Fisher King
7.3Arthur Newman
5.6The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
6.7Yellowbeard
5.5Game of Death II
5.7The Ballad of Narayama
7.5Junebug
6.6Antonio das Mortes
6.9Beneath Hill 60
6.8Terms and Conditions May Apply
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