

R · 107 min
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Directed by Terry Jones
Starring Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman
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...
Release
Mar 31, 1983
Budget
$9M
Breakeven
$22.5M(2.5x)
Gross
$42,749,697
Profit
$20,249,697
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.
Release
Mar 31, 1983
Budget
$9M
Breakeven
$22.5M(2.5x)
Gross
$42,749,697
Profit
$20,249,697
R · 107 min