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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
MEANRANK
79/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #845
- IMDb #1061
- Rotten Tomatoes #1135
- Metacritic #1140
- Letterboxd #1058
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1500
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1319
- Metacritic Critics #1334
- Metacritic Audience #971
- Douban #519
- Kinopoisk #791
- AlloCiné #890
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Everyone agrees
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 72, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 86.
See the most agreed on films →A surreal sketch comedy film that tackles the existential journey of human life, from birth to death and beyond. The sketches explore various stages and aspects of life, including war, religion, sex, and dinner parties, all presented with the group's signature absurdist humor, musical numbers, and animated sequences, questioning the very purpose of existence.
Details
- Director
- Terry Jones
- Writers
- Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam
- Released
- 31 March 1983
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $9.0M
- Box office
- $42.7M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 1 →1 major award won · 1 win from 1 nomination across 1 ceremony
| Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix 1983 | Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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