Cunk on Life (2024)

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She's back and ready to take on life.

Pioneering documentary maker Philomena Cunk returns with her most ambitious quest to date: venturing right up the universe and everything to examine life and existence in an attempt to find out the point of it all. Along the way, she interrogates experts on subjects from the big bang to biology and art to artificial intelligence. Really get to the nub of it.

• Released: 2024-12-05
• Genres: Comedy, TV Movie
• Runtime: 1h 10m
• Status: Released
• TMDB rating: 7.4/10 from 207 votes

Directed by Al Campbell.

Top cast

• Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk
• Douglas Hedley as Self
• Rupert Sheldrake as Self
• Alison Wright as Self
• Celia Deane-Drummond as Self
• Paul Nurse as Self
• Jim Al-Khalili as Self
• Joyce Harper as Self
• Prokar Dasgupta as Self
• Anil Seth as Self

Full cast & crew

Where to watch Cunk on Life

• United States: stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
• United Kingdom: stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads; watch free on BBC iPlayer
• India: stream on Netflix
• Canada: stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
• Australia: stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

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