Monty Python's Life of Brian

  • Rated R
  • 1hr 34m
  • 77

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Terry Jones

Producer:

Tarak Ben Ammar, John Goldstone, Tim Hampton

Writer:

Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam

Release Date:

Aug 17, 1979

Runtime:

1hr 34m

Synopsis

Brian is born on the original Christmas, in the stable next door. He spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.

Cast

  • Graham Chapman
  • John Cleese
  • Terry Gilliam
  • Eric Idle
  • Terry Jones
  • Michael Palin
  • Terence Bayler
  • Carol Cleveland
  • Kenneth Colley
  • Neil Innes

Did You Know?

Trivia

  • The scene with Brian and the others on their crosses was recorded early in the morning, and it was very cold. John Cleese is wearing clothes, while the others are not, because he couldn't stand the cold.
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Goofs

  • A camera shadow appears on Brian the first time people chase him, thinking he's the messiah.
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Quotes

    • Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
    • Attendee: Brought peace?
    • Reg: Oh, peace - shut up!
    • Reg: There is not one of us who would not gladly suffer death to rid this country of the Romans once and for all.
    • Dissenter: Uh, well, one.
    • Reg: Oh, yeah, yeah, there's one. But otherwise, we're solid.
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Metacritic

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Based on 15 Critics
7.9

USER SCORE (169)

Generally favorable reviews based on 169 Reviews
100

It has been said that a Monty Python movie is only successful if it offends everyone in the audience at least once. By that measuring stick as well as nearly any other, The Life of Brian is an unqualified triumph. It makes us confront our foibles and laugh at them.

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Metacritic review by James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
88

No God and no religion can survive ridicule, wrote Mark Twain, but for once the sage of Hannibal was wrong.

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Metacritic review by Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
75

Funny, in that peculiar British way where jokes are told sideways, with the obvious point and then the delayed zinger.

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Metacritic review by Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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