Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Directed by Terry Jones
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. From TMDB
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The film opened in the United States on 31 March 1983. At 257 cinemas it ranked number six at the US box office, grossing US$1,987,853 ($7,734 per screen) in its opening weekend. It played at 554 cinemas at its widest point, and its total gross in the United States and Canada was $14,929,552. In the United Kingdom it opened on 3 screens in London and grossed £49,641 in its first seven days to rank third at the London box office. Internationally it grossed $27.8 million for a worldwide total of $42.7 million. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two and a half stars out of four, calling it a "a barbed, uncompromising attack on generally observed community standards". In The New…
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neutral · AI labelView post →Every Sperm is Sacred - Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. I can't believe I hadn't seen this before today. It's honestly a bop. Edit: [And in 4k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nguRuwWqKg)
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neutral · AI labelView post →Been slacking on my movie watching updates. Saw 1983's Monty Python's The Meaning of Life. It's my frist time seeing the last of the 'Python Trilogy' of films, and it's the weakest, imo. It apparently was a bit aimless during filming, and it reflects in the movie, which is a collection of skits.
negative · AI labelView post →Starting at 8 PM EST. TCM presents a Monty Python mini marathon. First, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, 1975. Followed by The Life of Brian, 1979 and then Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, 1983.
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neutral · AI labelView post →The Monty Python team. Elstree Studios, 1982 - during production of 'Monty Python's The Meaning of Life'. Christmas in Heaven set.
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neutral · AI labelView post →I been rewatching MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE and I still mostly don't like it, outside of the short film at the front of it. But genuinely, the guy who chooses his own mode of death and it is being chased by beautiful naked women off a cliff? That's really fucking hilarious. #Filmsky
negative · AI labelView post →Terry Jones directing and acting. And a bit of flirting, too. Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
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neutral · AI labelView post →Let’s not forget decades of blaming everything on mainland Europe and EU. Russia isn’t that good when it comes to creating new divides but they are amazing at exploiting existing ones. In the Monty Python's The Meaning of Life film there is a restaurant scene with an obese gentleman consuming copious amounts of food which makes him vomit repeatedly. It ends when a waiter brings him a wafer-thin mint which makes him explode. Russian social media campaigns are kind of like that mint. We need to…
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neutral · AI labelView post →#Edwards2026MovieThingChallenge Movie scene that shows someone giving birth either at home or in a hospital Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) A satirical look at the nature of modern hospital births #filmsky 📽️ #moviesky
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positive · AI labelView post →Absolutely Anything (2015 1080p). Absolutely Anything is a 2015 British science fantasy comedy film directed by Terry Jones, and written by Terry Jones and Gavin Scott. It stars Simon Pegg, Kate Beckinsale, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Rob Riggle, Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley, with the nonhuman characters' voices provided by John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Jones, Michael Palin and Robin Williams. It was the first movie to feature all living Monty Python members since Monty Python's The Meaning…
neutral · AI labelView post →Monty Python's The Meaning of Life Maître d': "Just one more wafer-thin mint, monsieur." Mr. Creosote: "Fuck off, I'm full." Maître d': "Oh, sir, it's only wafer-thin." Mr. Creosote: "Look, I couldn't eat another thing. I'm absolutely stuffed. Bugger off!"
neutral · AI labelView post →Comfort movies: UHF True Stories Silence of the Lambs Samurai Cop Roadhouse Waiting For Guffman Ghostbusters Rocky American Movie Escape from New York Time Bandits Monty Python's the Meaning of Life Repo Man Bodyslam
neutral · AI labelView post →Out of curiosity I looked for an equivalent one generation up. Tootsie, Sophie's Choice, Octopussy, and Monty Python's the Meaning of Life came out in 1983, when the oldest GenX'ers were 18 and I was 12. It'd be odd to call any of them "the definitive GenX movie," wouldn't it? They're Boomer movies.
neutral · AI labelView post →365 Days of Films Day 313 Monty Python's The Meaning of Life 1983 Just like the title says this movie is about life in it's entirety. Birth to death and all the things in between through the eyes of the greatest comedy troupe of all time. #filmsky #movies #moviesky
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neutral · AI labelView post →My aunts deciding to watch "Monty Python's the Meaning of Life" while babysitting me at the age of four left me prepared for a lot of scar-potential fare. That and this thing at the age of seven or so...
neutral · AI labelView post →It's as if his goal is to see just how much bullshit his cult will ingest before they've had enough. The restaurant/cherry scene in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life comes to mind. 💥
neutral · AI labelView post →"Monty Python's The Meaning of Life" was all over the place. But there were some funny moments. #MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife #TCMParty
neutral · AI labelView post →If he'd love it, I see no problem. But, I was shown "Monty Python's the Meaning of Life" at the age of four. (Hurrah for aunts as baby-sitters.)
neutral · AI labelView post →Also seen at the Gallagher: MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE, quoted (again) just three nights ago in the parking lot of a Dollar General. "You are so big. So absolutely huge. Gosh, we're all really impressed down here." (My go-to for tiny men in loud cars begging for attention.)
neutral · AI labelView post →One of my favorite portrayals of Death/The Grim Reaper in fiction is by John Cleese in Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life. Just saying!
positive · AI labelView post →There's a Gilliam animation at the beginning of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life where a huge industrial machine is churning out identical families, all wearing Mickey Mouse ears. This is that scene.
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