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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

Monty Python's
The Meaning of Life
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Terry Jones
Produced by John Goldstone
Written by
Starring
Music by John Du Prez
Cinematography
Edited by Julian Doyle
Production
companies
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date
  • 22 April 1983 (1983-04-22)
Running time
90 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Budget $9 million
Box office $14.9 million

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, also known as The Meaning of Life, is a 1983 British musical sketch comedy film written and performed by the Monty Python troupe, directed by one of its members, Terry Jones. It was the last film to feature all six Python members before Graham Chapman's death in 1989.

Unlike Holy Grail and Life of Brian, the film's two predecessors, which each told a single, more-or-less coherent story,The Meaning of Life returns to the sketch format of the troupe's original television series and their first film from twelve years earlier, And Now for Something Completely Different, loosely structured as a series of comic sketches about the various stages of life.

Released on 22 April 1983 in the United Kingdom, The Meaning of Life, although not as acclaimed as its predecessors, was still well received critically and was a minor box office success, grossing almost $15 million on a $9 million budget. The film has a 90% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and appears in a 2010 list of the top 20 cult films published by The Boston Globe.

The film begins with the short film The Crimson Permanent Assurance, where a group of elderly office clerks working in a small accounting firm. They rebel against yuppie corporate masters, transform their office into a pirate ship, and raid a large financial district. The rest of the film is split into seven chapters made up of distinct sketches.

The first, “The Miracle of Birth”, features a woman in labour being ignored by the doctors in favour of impressing the hospital’s administrator, then accuse her of applying gender roles after the baby is born and she asks about its gender. In Yorkshire, a Roman Catholic man loses his jobs and returns home, instructing his children on the church’s opposition to contraception, leading to the musical number “Every Sperm is Sacred”, before selling his children off for scientific experiments. Meanwhile, a Protestant man and his wife discuss having non-reproductive sex.


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