Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Movie Review 1983

Funny, technically impressive film conducts various inquiries into the most profound questions confronting humanity. Notable among the sketches here are a live sex enactment performed before bored schoolboys, a student-faculty rugby game that turns quite violent, and an encounter between a physician and a reluctant, untimely organ donor. Another sketch provides a memorable portrait of a glutton prone to nausea. And at film's end, the meaning of life is actually revealed.

Distribution

Image Entertainment, 20525 Nordhoff St., Ste 200, Chatsworth, CA 91311, Phone: (818)407-9100, Email: inquiries@image-entertainment.com, URL: http://www.image-entertainment.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 107 minutes.
Originally from British.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Satire & Parody, Comedy Anthologies, Swashbucklers, Doctors & Nurses, Sex & Sexuality, Sports Comedies, The Meaning of Life, Monty Python, Technicolor Yawn, Edibles, Death & the Afterlife, Unhappy Meals, Grim Reaper

Screenplay

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

Cast

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, Carol Cleveland, Matt Frewer, Simon Jones, Patricia Quinn, Andrew MacLachlan

Cinematography

Peter Hannan

Director

Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

Music

John Du Prez, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

Producer

Handmade Films

Awards

Cannes 1983: Grand Jury Prize.