# Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)

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**Runtime**: 107 min
**Genres**: Comedy
**Directed by**: Terry Jones
**Written by**: John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam
**Starring**: Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin

> *It took God six days to create the heavens and the earth...and Monty Python ninety minutes to screw it up.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

London office, morning, a typewriter clacking, a staid insurance company morphs into a pirate ship, absurd chaos erupts. 
Terry Jones orchestrates a surreal farce that never apologizes.

**Mood tags**: playful, surreal

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