Biography: Terry Jones |
Unlike many of his fellow Monty Python-ites, who were educated at Cambridge, actor/writer/director Terry Jones attended Cambridge's arch-rival Oxford, where he worked with the Experimental Theatre Club. Upon his graduation, Jones was hired as a BBC... more
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Chaucer: The Road to Canterbury (2009)
Tags: Biography Language & Literature
Length: 120min
This documentary with historian and Monty Python alumn Terry Jones examines the life of historical author Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the Canterbury Tales. Following him from his childhood in 14th century England, the program explores how Chaucer...
Gloups! Je Suis Un Poisson (2001)
Tags: Children's Fantasy Family-Oriented Adventure Family
Length: 78min
Three kids are accidentally sent on the underwater adventure of a lifetime in this animated story for the whole family. Five-year-old Stella and her 13-year-old brother Fly are dropped off to spend the afternoon with their Aunt Anna and her son, an...
Cast: Nicol Williamson John Cleese Eric Idle
Tags: Family Comedy Children's Fantasy Slapstick
Length: 90min
Former Monty Python members Terry Jones, Eric Idle, John Cleese, and Michael Palin were reunited by director Jones for this live-action adaptation of the 1908 children's fantasy classic by Kenneth Grahame (1859-1932). The actors have only slight...
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 70min
A woman, Magdalen McElhinney (Alix D. Smith), sits in a sleazy Philadelphia bar, offering herself for a price. But she's not selling sex; she's selling stories, and men and women come in and lay money down to hear her tales. One of her more demanding...
Cast: Mickey Rooney Eartha Kitt Tim Robbins Susan Sarandon
Tags: Parody/Spoof Satire Fantasy Adventure Comedy
Length: 104min
An unusually principled young Viking becomes increasing uncomfortable with all the killing and plundering that goes with the job, and sets out on a magical journey in order to bring about world peace. Former Monty Python member Terry Jones attempts to...
Cast: Terry Jones
Tags: Drama Biopic Docudrama Satire Parody/Spoof
Length: 104min
This comedy was inspired by the true story of Cynthia Payne, a former waitress who gained fame as England's best-known (and best-liked) madame. Christine Painter (Julie Walters) is a working-class single mother who sub-leases a few inexpensive flats...
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
Cast: Terry Gilliam
Tags: Farce Gross-Out Comedy Satire Parody/Spoof Absurd Comedy Comedy
Length: 107min
The Meaning of Life is without a doubt the most tasteless of the Monty Python feature films; it also happens to be one of the funniest. Life's questions are "answered" in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a pre-credits sequence at a...
Tags: Absurd Comedy Religious Comedy Comedy Parody/Spoof
Length: 93min
On a midnight clear 2,000 years ago, three wise men enter a manger where a babe is wrapped in swaddling clothes. It is an infant called Brian...and the three wise men are in the wrong manger. For the rest of his life, Brian (Graham Chapman) finds...
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
Cast: Monty Python
Tags: Comedy Slapstick Parody/Spoof Absurd Comedy
Length: 89min
From its opening multi-language titles (that sure looks like Swedish) to the closing arrest of the entire Dark Ages cast by modern-day bobbies, Monty Python and the Holy Grail helped to define "irreverence" and became an instant cult classic. This...
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