B0000A0MFJ

025192122125

1983

1983-03-31

107

1h 47min

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award, 1 win & 2 nominations total

Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam

John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle

John Goldstone

John Du Prez

Peter Hannan, Roger Pratt

Julian Doyle

Michelle Guish, Debbie McWilliams

Harry Lange

John Beard, Richard Dawking

Sharon Cartwright, Simon Wakefield

James Acheson

Elaine Carew, Sallie Evans, Mary Hillman, Mike Jones, Pamela Rayson, Hilary Steinberg, Maureen Stephenson, Christopher Tucker, Maggie Weston

David Wimbury

Jonathan Benson, Matthew Binns, Ray Corbett, Derek Harrington, Callum McDougall, Kieron Phipps, Paul Taylor, Gary White, Bob Wright

Peter Browne, Roger Cain, Alan Chesters, John Cole, Mel Coleman, Steve Cooper, Peter Cull, Dennis Griffin, Richard Hornsby, Brian Humphrey, Tommy Kavanagh, Reginald Keywood, Michael Law, Colin Lovering, Dave Newton, Brian Payne, Ken Powell, Bill Sansom, Dick Savery, Vic Simpson, John Skinner, Bob Walker, Andrew Ackland-Snow, Gari Bacon, Gerry Bourke, Dennis Murray, Martin Smeaton

Paul Carr, Philip Chubb, Bob Doyle, Rodney Glenn, Debbie Kaplan, Garth Marshall, Brian Paxton

Richard Conway, George Gibbs, Ray Hanson, Bob Hollow, David Watson, Terence J. Cox, Garth Inns

Michael Beard, Valerie Charlton, Carol De Jong, Nick Dunlop, Roy Field, Kent Houston, Tim Ollive, Peter Pullen, Tim Spence, Paul Whitbread, Janice Body, Martin Body

David Appleby, Fred Ashby, Kenneth Atherfold, Barry Brown, John Clark, Clive Coote, Mark Cridlin, Tony Cridlin, Chuck Finch, Dewi Humphreys, John Ignatius, Sue Knight, Alan McPherson, Stewart Monteith, Reg Parsons, Larry Randall, Roy Rodhouse, Richard Seal, Malcolm Smith, Stefan Stankowski, Toby Tyler, George White, Kevin Brookner, Stuart McAlister

Jill Brooks, Kate Hepburn, Richard Ollive, Tim Ollive, Mike Stuart

William Baboo, Vin Burnham, Shirley Denny, Linda Eke, Gilly Hebden, Janet Lucas-Wakely, Stephen Miles, David Murch, Ray Scott, Joyce Stoneman, Jill Thraves, James Wakely, Lizzie Willey, Dougie Hawkes

Roy Baker, Margarita Doyle, Keith Lowes, Simon Milton, Diane Ryder

Peter Kohn

Penny Eyles, Maggie Jones

Steve Abbott, Patricia Carr, Valerie Craig, William Hobbs, Barbara Holloway, Anne James, Nancy Lewis, Arlene Phillips, Heather Seymour, Mike Smith, Paul Taylor, Tim Vaughan-Hughes, Robin Demetriou, Steve Meek, Adam Samuelson

Comedy, Musical

Celandine Films, The Monty Python Partnership, Universal Pictures

UK

English

R

7.5

119927

72

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 by The Boston Globe.

$9,000,000 (estimated)

$1,987,853

$14,929,552

$14,949,697

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