Mamma Mia! (film)
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| Directed by | Phyllida Lloyd |
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Judy Craymer Gary Goetzman Tom Hanks |
| Screenplay by | Catherine Johnson |
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Mamma Mia! by Catherine Johnson |
| Starring |
Meryl Streep Pierce Brosnan Colin Firth Stellan Skarsgård Julie Walters Dominic Cooper Amanda Seyfried Christine Baranski |
| Music by |
Benny Andersson Björn Ulvaeus |
| Cinematography | Haris Zambarloukos |
| Edited by | Lesley Walker |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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109 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom United States Sweden |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $52 million |
| Box office | $609.8 million |
Mamma Mia! (promoted as Mamma Mia! The Movie) is a 2008 British-American-Swedish musical romantic comedy film adapted from the 1999 West End/2001 Broadway musical of the same name, based on the songs of successful pop group ABBA, with additional music composed by ABBA member Benny Andersson. The film was directed by Phyllida Lloyd and distributed by Universal Pictures in partnership with Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson's Playtone and Littlestar, and the title originates from ABBA's 1975 chart-topper "Mamma Mia". Meryl Streep heads the cast, playing the role of single mother Donna Sheridan. Pierce Brosnan (Sam Carmichael), Colin Firth (Harry Bright), and Stellan Skarsgård (Bill Anderson) play the three possible fathers to Donna's daughter, Sophie (Amanda Seyfried). Mamma Mia! received mixed reviews from critics and earned $609.8 million on a $52 million budget.
On a Greek island called Kalokairi (summer), bride-to-be Sophie Sheridan posts three wedding invitations ("I Have a Dream") to different men.
Sophie's bridesmaids, Ali and Lisa, arrive. Sophie reveals that she found her mother's diary and has three possible fathers: Irish-American architect Sam Carmichael, Swedish adventurer and writer Bill Anderson, and British banker Harry Bright. As Sophie wants her father to give her away, she invited them without telling her mother, believing that after she spends time with them she will know which is her father ("Honey, Honey"). Villa owner Donna Sheridan, Sophie's mother, is ecstatic to reunite with her former Dynamos bandmates, wisecracking author Rosie Mulligan and wealthy multiple divorcée Tanya Chesham-Leigh, and reveals her bafflement at her daughter's desire to get married. Donna shows off the villa to Rosie and Tanya ("Money, Money, Money"). The three men arrive and Sophie smuggles them to their room and explains that she sent the invitations. She begs them to hide so Donna will have a surprise at the wedding: seeing the old friends of whom she "so often" favourably speaks. They overhear Donna working (humming "Fernando") and swear not to reveal her secret.
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