The Meaning of Life

Name: The Meaning of Life
Genre: Comedy, Music
Duration: 1 h 47 min
Rating: 9.1
Cast: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones

1983

9.1

Title: The Meaning of Life

Original Title: The Meaning of Life

Year: 1983

Info

Country: UK
Length: 107 Minutes (1 hour 47 min)
Budget: $9,000,000
Genre: Comedy Music
Studios: Universal Pictures
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Age rating: 15 (Suitable only for 15 years and over)

Release Dates

UK: June 23 1983
United States: March 31 1983

Plot

'The Meaning of life' is a musical comedy film directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. It also has a great cast formed by John Cleese, Graham Chapman and also Terry Gilliam.

This time, Monty Phyton's British group focus on one of the most important questions for the humanity: whis is the meaning of life for humans? This question will be answer through different funny sketches that focus on a lot of themes like religion, sex education, philosophy, war, history, medicine, nutrition or death. Also, thanks to different scenes the film will start with the birth of humans and will finish with death. The name of the sketches are: 'The Miracle of Birth', 'Every Sperm is Sacred', 'Growth and Learning', 'Fighting each other', 'The Middle of the film', 'Find the Fish', 'Middle Age', 'Live Organ Transplants', 'The Autumn Years', 'Death' and 'The End of the Film'.

Unlike 'Holy Grail' and 'Life of Brian', the film's two predecessors, which each told a single, coherent story, 'The Meaning of Life' doesn't. Although it wasn't as acclaimed as its two predecessors, was still well received by the audience and it also collected a gross budget: $15 million on a $9 million budget.

The movie was released on 1983 and six years after, Graham Chapman passed away.

Cast

Director:

Terry Jones Terry Jones

Terry Gilliam Terry Gilliam

Photos

Trivia

Mr. Creosote's moment

The "Mr. Creosote" scene was roundly rejected on its initial read-through. John Cleese saved it a few weeks later, after realizing the waiter was the funniest part.

Sex education lessons

Before the teacher gives the sex education lesson, he gives a extremely convoluted explanation of how to proceed during the next football match. According to John Cleese, the speech was taken almost verbatim from his old headmaster, who sometimes had a hard time making sense.