The Meaning of Life (1983)

Drama 1h47m (107 mins) Rating:

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.

Direction

Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones

Screenplay

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