Monty Python's Life of Brian that the council had not seen the film, and had based their opinion on what they had been told by the Nationwide Festival of Light, a grouping with an evangelical Christian base, of which they knew nothing. Some bans continued into the 21st century. In 2008, Torbay Council finally permitted the film to be shown after it won an online vote for the English Riviera International Comedy Film Festival. In 2009, it was announced that a thirty-year-old ban of the film in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth had finally been lifted, and the subsequent showing was attended by Terry Jones
Life of a King him go to college. Gaines tells Tahime that "that was the first time I've been scared all year." The film ends with the Eugene's children visiting the chess house. The film debuted at the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival and had its general American release on January 17, 2014 by Millennium Entertainment. "Life of a King" received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregation website Metacritic gives a rating of 52 out of 100 based on reviews from seven critics, which indicates "mixed or average" reviews. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 38% approval rating with an average rating