

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
“It took God six days to create the heavens and the earth...and Monty Python ninety minutes to screw it up.”
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
Studio
Celandine Films
Language
en
Status
Released
How Monty Python's The Meaning of Life performed
Budget
$9.0M
Worldwide Gross
$42.7M
Gross Profit
$33.7M
Return
4.7× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$6M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast

Various Roles
Terry Gilliam
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Graham Chapman
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John Cleese
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Eric Idle
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Terry Jones
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Michael Palin
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Carol Cleveland
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Cedric
Simon Jones
Cedric

Mrs. Williams
Patricia Quinn
Mrs. Williams

Nurse #1
Judy Loe
Nurse #1

(Segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")
Andrew Bicknell
(Segment "The Crimson Permanent Assurance")

Groom
Andrew MacLachlan
Groom
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