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The Meaning of Life

Cast

Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle View All

Crew

Terry Gilliam (Screenplay), Michael Palin (Screenplay), Terry Jones (Screenplay), Terry Jones (Director) View All

Release: Mar. 31st, 1983

Runtime: 1 hour, 47 minutes

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.

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