Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

1h 47m · 1983 · Directed by Terry Jones · 3.8 / 5 on Letterboxd

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) runs 1h 47m, directed by Terry Jones. It is one of 3,647 films in the 100 Minute Movies catalog — every one rated 3.0 or higher by Letterboxd members and short enough to finish in an evening.

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.

Genres: Comedy

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