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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) [R]

Release Date:
March 31, 1983

Original Title:
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Alternate Titles:
El sentido de la vida
Monty Python - Il Senso Della Vita
Monty Python - O Sentido da Vida
Monty Python e o Sentido da Vida
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Monty Python: Livets mening
Monty Python: Smysl života
The Meaning of Life
万世魔星：生命的意义

Genres:
Comedy

Production Companies:
Celandine Films
The Monty Python Partnership
Universal Pictures

Production Countries:
United Kingdom

Ratings / Certifications:
AR: 18  AU: M  BR: 18  CZ: U  DE: 16  DK: 15  ES: 12  FI: K-16  FR: U  GB: 15  GR: 16  IE: 15  IT: VM14  JP: R15+  NL: 6  NO: 15  PT: M/18  SE: 15  US: R 

Runtime: 107

It took God six days to create the heavens and the earth...and Monty Python ninety minutes to screw it up.

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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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Art Direction:
John Beard
Richard Dawking

Casting:
Debbie McWilliams
Michelle Guish

Choreographer:
Arlene Phillips

Costume Design:
James Acheson

Director:
Terry Jones

Director of Photography:
Peter Hannan
Roger Pratt

Editor:
Julian Doyle

Makeup Department Head:
Mary Hillman

Original Music Composer:
John Du Prez

Producer:
John Goldstone

Production Design:
Harry Lange

Production Manager:
David Wimbury

Screenplay:
John Cleese
Eric Idle
Graham Chapman
Michael Palin
Terry Gilliam
Terry Jones

Set Decoration:
Sharon Cartwright
Simon Wakefield

Still Photographer:
David Appleby

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