An independent, single mother who owns a small hotel on a Greek island is about to marry off the spirited young daughter she’s raised alone. But, the daughter has secretly invited three of her mother’s ex-lovers in the hopes of finding her biological father.
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Credits: TheMovieDb.

Film Cast:

• Donna Sheridan: Meryl Streep
• Sophie Sheridan: Amanda Seyfried
• Sam Carmichael: Pierce Brosnan
• Bill Anderson: Stellan Skarsgård
• Harry Bright: Colin Firth
• Rosie Mulligan: Julie Walters
• Tanya Chesham-Leigh: Christine Baranski
• Lisa: Rachel McDowall
• Sam’s PA: Nancy Baldwin
• Harry’s Housekeeper: Heather Emmanuel
• Harry’s Driver: Colin Davis
• Ali: Ashley Lilley
• Stavros: Ricardo Montez
• Arina: Mia Soteriou
• Gregoris: Enzo Squillino Jr.
• Sky Rymand: Dominic Cooper
• Pepper: Philip Michael
• Eddie: Chris Jarvis
• Panos: George Georgiou
• Dimitri: Hemi Yeroham
• Ione: Maria Lopiano
• Petros: Juan Pablo Di Pace
• Irini: Norma Atallah
• Elena: Myra McFadyen
• Ariana: Leonie Hill
• Elpida: Jane Foufas
• Father Alex: Niall Buggy
• Stag: Karl Bowe
• Hen: Celestina Banjo
• Stag: Emrhys Cooper
• Hen: Maria Despina
• Stag: Gareth Davis
• Hen: Charlotte Habib
• Stag: Gareth Derrick
• Hen: Jennifer Leung
• Stag: Kage Douglas
• Hen: Lydia Louisa
• Stag: Phillip Dzwonkiewicz
• Hen: Kristina MacMillan
• Stag: Tommy Franzen
• Hen: Lauri Owen
• Stag: Tom Goodall
• Hen: Joanne Sandi
• Stag: Aykut Hilmi
• Hen: Christie Saunders
• Stag: Jamie Hughes-Ward
• Hen: Emma Slater
• Stag: Taylor James
• Hen: Helen Soraya
• Stag: Jack Jefferson
• Hen: Caterina Spano
• Stag: Peter Le Brun
• Hen: Michelle Theunissen
• Stag: Sebastien Torkia
• Hen: Kitty Whitelaw
• Stag: Dylan Turner
• Hen: Nikki Davis-Jones
• Stag: Ed White
• Hen: Michelle Trimboli
• Stag: Sean Williams
• Hen: Kirsty Mather
• Stag: Lee Honey-Jones
• Hen: Rebecca Lee
• Stag: Gareth Chart
• Hen: Clare Louise Connolly
• Stag: Sonny Lee Hymas
• Hen: Kirsty Swain
• Stag: Tim Stanley
• Hen: Lisa Reynolds
• Hen: Sara West
• Hen: Claire Fishenden
• Businessman (uncredited): Adrian Allan
• Piano Player on Boat (uncredited): Benny Andersson
• Dancer (uncredited): Anthony Backman
• Dancer (uncredited): Mackenzie Criswell
• Dancer (uncredited): Lori Haley Fox
• Dancer (uncredited): Sommer Garcia
• Singer (uncredited): Will Jeffs
• Agnes – Dancer (uncredited): Spencer Kayden
• Dancer (uncredited): Kirk McGee
• Dancer (uncredited): Meghan McLeod
• Dancer (uncredited): Nikki Rapp
• Greek God (uncredited): Björn Ulvaeus
• Greek Godess (uncredited): Rita Wilson

Film Crew:

• Executive Producer: Tom Hanks
• Production Design: Maria Djurkovic
• Editor: Lesley Walker
• Casting: Ellen Lewis
• Casting: Priscilla John
• Costume Design: Ann Roth
• Supervising Art Director: Nick Palmer
• Executive Producer: Mark Huffam
• Hairdresser: Eithné Fennel
• Executive Producer: Rita Wilson
• Assistant Costume Designer: Michelle Matland
• Director of Photography: Haris Zambarloukos
• Focus Puller: Hamish Doyne-Ditmas
• Producer: Gary Goetzman
• Special Effects Supervisor: Paul Corbould
• Hairstylist: J. Roy Helland
• Executive Producer: Benny Andersson
• Set Decoration: Barbara Herman-Skelding
• ADR Mixer: Peter Gleaves
• Costume Supervisor: Lindsay Pugh
• Director: Phyllida Lloyd
• Musical: Catherine Johnson
• Producer: Judy Craymer
• Executive Producer: Björn Ulvaeus
• Original Music Composer: Stig Anderson
• “C” Camera Operator: Luke Redgrave
• Supervising Sound Editor: Nick Adams
• Foley Artist: Ruth Sullivan
• VFX Supervisor: Mark Nelmes
• Art Direction: Dean Clegg
• Casting Associate: Orla Maxwell
• Standby Art Director: Sarah Stuart
• First Assistant Director: Christopher Newman
• Stunt Coordinator: Gareth Milne
• Choreographer: Anthony Van Laast
• Sound Designer: Alastair Sirkett
• Production Sound Mixer: Simon Hayes
• Music Editor: Robert Houston
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Barry
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Dominick Tavella
• Supervising Music Editor: Tony Lewis
• Post Production Supervisor: Jeanette Haley
• Supervising Dialogue Editor: Tim Hands
• “B” Camera Operator: Simon Baker
• Assistant Editor: Saska Simpson
• Script Supervisor: Sally Jones
• Foley Artist: Ricky Butt
• Still Photographer: Peter Mountain
• “C” Camera Operator: Martin Kenzie
• Gaffer: John Higgins
• Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Minkler
• Publicist: Stacy Mann
• Makeup Designer: Tina Earnshaw
• Foley Editor: Alex Joseph
• Dialogue Editor: Jennie Evans
• Key Hair Stylist: Zoe Tahir
• Camera Operator: Philip Sindall
• Art Department Assistant: Leonie Heys-Cerchio
• Hairdresser: Francesca Crowder
• ADR Mixer: Mark Appleby
• Unit Production Manager: Kathy Sykes
• Assistant Editor: Gabrielle Smith
• Post Production Accountant: Jim Hajicosta
• Assistant Sound Editor: Conor Mackey
• First Assistant Editor: Sascha Dhillon
• Focus Puller: Marc Atherfold
• Art Direction: Rebecca Holmes
• Music Supervisor: Becky Bentham
• Property Master: Maxie McDonald
• Title Designer: Matt Curtis
• Makeup Artist: Polly Earnshaw
• Construction Manager: John Bohan
• VFX Editor: Jeremy Hume
• Associate Choreographer: Nichola Treherne
• Vocal Coach: Mia Soteriou
• ADR Voice Casting: Louis Elman
• First Assistant Editor: Bridgette Williams
• Boom Operator: Tim Surrey
• Production Accountant: James Richardson
• Production Coordinator: Deryn Stafford
• Key Grip: Adrian McCarthy
• Makeup Artist: Belinda Hodgson
• ADR Voice Casting: Abigail Barbier
• Focus Puller: Ashley Bond
• Second Assistant Director: Richard Goodwin
• Graphic Designer: Helen Koutas
• Art Department Coordinator: Kate Curtis
• Props: Eric Strange
• Focus Puller: Peter Byrne
• Best Boy Grip: Jody Knight
• Makeup Artist: Christina Baker
• Dresser: Jenny Hawkins
• Costume Coordinator: Lita Blechman
• Seamstress: Linda Duffield
• Costumer: Jacqueline Mulligan
• Post Production Coordinator: Siobhan Boyes
• Post Production Accountant: Rob Seager
• Transportation Captain: Philip Allchin
• Foley Recordist: Mark Lafbery
• Vocal Coach: Göran Arnberg
• Conductor: Martin Lowe
• Vocal Coach: Torquil Munro
• Finance: Michele Tandy
• Musician: Martin Redhe Nord

Movie Reviews:

• LastCaress1972: To Mamma Mia! then, a movie easily slipping in past Coyote Ugly as the second-worst film I’ve ever seen (behind The Rocky Horror Picture Show). My eyes. I can’t unsee it.

  From what I could gather (and that’s not because the plot is difficult – Christ, no – or because I wasn’t really paying attention, it’s because the film seemed to be not sinking in, not digesting in my brain. I think my brain was trying to reject it, like a foreign object) – an airy-fairy middle-aged bohemian tart (Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady) prances and dances around her primary-coloured villa on an unspecified Greek (I think) island. Her equally airy-fairy “Barbie Princess” daughter (Amanda Seyfried, Les Misérables) prances and dances around with her. That seems to be what they do. I mean, for a living, like. They’re not on holiday. This is the summation of their lives. Idyllic and unrealistic prancery and dancery, around a villa apparently coloured in by over-enthusiastic first-graders. They have two friends each who escort them everywhere – even to the sh!tter perhaps, I dunno – who exist exclusively to orbit like satellites around this main pair. In fact, everybody in this movie exist purely to serve the life stories of Streep and Seyfried. It’s that sort of film, where everybody on-screen is wondering, “Oh! Will Streep eat a tangerine next? Or a satsuma? Will Seyfried brush her hair with a soft brush, or a slightly-softer-than-that brush? Oh, the agony!” Anyway, the daughter’s getting wed – the next day, I think – to some impossibly perfect young lad (to suit her impossibly perfect everything else), but, oh noes! She never knew who her dad was, because her mum was a dirty old stropper back in the eighties, and they’ve both been too busy prancing and dancing for two straight decades to even have brought it up, ever! So, who will give her away tomorrow? Oh noes!

  Well she prances and dances her way to her mum’s secret diary (with her two conjoined mates, obvs) and, equally “obvs”, it’s all in there. Ta-daa! Except, there are three possible “daddies” and of course, they are Colin Firth (The King’s Speech), Pierce Brosnan (Goldeneye) and Stellan Skarsgård (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest). So she invites all three to the wedding under the pretense of being her own mum and of course all three drop whatever they’ve been doing for twenty years and turbo their way, immediately, to this island, all arriving together, on the same boat, which also belongs to one of them. Hurrah. From there, much “hilarity” ensues as the airy-fairy daughter tries to suss which one’s her dad while her airy-fairy tart mother spends the rest of the film – with HER conjoined mates, obvs – wondering whether to let Brosnan “tap dat ass” one more time.

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  SPOILER ALERT (LIKE ANYONE GIVES A DRY, UNYIELDING BUMPLOP): They don’t find out who the daddy is: the three pinhead blokes all agree that they now already love this silly airy-fairy daughter so much that they agree to be one-thirds daddy each. Then, out of the clear ****ing sky, the airy-fairy daughter tells her groom at the altar that the wedding’s off, and they should just prance and dance around the world instead. Fantastic! And not to waste a wedding full of perfect ****ing strangers anyway, but Brosnan decides to marry Streep while they’re there. Well of course. And Skarsgård hooks up with Julie “Isn’t she dead yet?” Walters – one of Streep’s conjoined mates – and Firth, who as it happens was a left-footer all along who was just experimenting with Streep back in the day, cops off with a waiter in traditional Greek island fashion. Hurrah for everything! Let’s have another ABBA song, eh?

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  Oh, the ABBA songs. I mean, there are musicals. Then, there are musical musicals. And then, way past any of that, there is Mamma Mia!. A quick Wiki-up shows me that, excluding reprises and a deleted scene, there are twenty songs performed in Mamma Mia!. So, say, four minutes per song, that’s eighty minutes. Wiki (again) tells me that the film is 109 minutes in length, so let’s knock off ten minutes-worth of credits, and you’re looking at eighty minutes of singing in a 99 minute film. That sounds about right. A 19-minute story – a p!ss-poor one, at that – stretched over an hour-and-a-half by the soothing tunes of Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn and Anni-Frid. Looking at those numbers I’m now somewhat impressed that whilst watching this pile of pooey bum-leavings I didn’t stand up, lose the plot, smash my house to rubble and wander off to live in the woods as a sasquatch. It was ceaseless. An ABBA song, three lines of dialogue (if you were lucky, which wasn’t often), another ABBA song. Over and over. And… well, the songs were all sung in-camera by the actors. And whilst I wouldn’t call any of them good singers, they could all at least hold a note (only just in Streep’s case, but she managed to stumble over that line).

  All except Pierce Brosnan.

  Oh, Pierce. Pierce! Why didn’t someone tell him? Did no one care enough? Is he THAT unlikeable? Why couldn’t he hear it himself? I don’t want to come across as either xenophobic or stereotypical when I suggest that he sounded like a drunken Irishman preparing to fight, but that IS what he sounded like. And who knows, maybe that’s what was really happening with him at that time. He IS an Irishman, perhaps he needed to get good and liquored up before the singing – I know I would – and perhaps he was wondering whether or not to attack the first person on the set who dared laugh. Sounds perfectly plausible.

  Anyway, the whole thing’s a travesty, top-to-toe. Most closely resembled one of those straight-to-video Barbie movies, beloved of six-year-old girls and nobody else on the entire planet. If you ever have an opportunity to see it, DO NOT take that opportunity. SPURN that opportunity. Spurn as though your very life depended on it. That’s all the advice I can give. Don’t do what I did, and watch Mamma Mia!. Only madness lies that way.

• Joe: Really enjoyable film, with a lot of funny one-liners, and despite the fact that a lot of them are rubbish singers, that partly adds to the humour, and obviously, Amanda, Meryl, Colin and others do have good voices 🙂
• Zoro DPiece: ***SPOILERS AHEAD***

  _Mamma Mia!_ is an American-British romantic comedy musical directed by Phyllida Lloyd. The movie is loosely based on the original London musical also directed by Lloyd, and was the brain child of Judy Craymer who was convinced ABBA songs could be used in a theatrical production, especially after hearing the love ballad _The Winner Takes It All_. Craymer along with British playwright Catherine Johnson also worked on this film. Johnson being the original musical’s scriptwriter wrote the movie’s script, Craymer was an executive producer alongside Gary Goetzman as well as Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.

  The film stars Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper, Amanda Seyfried, and Christine Baranski.

  Set on the idyllic Greek island of Kalokairi it tells the story of Donna Sheridan (Streep) an independent manageress and owner of her own hotel. Donna has a 20 year-old daughter by the name of Sophie (Seyfried) who is getting married to Sky (Cooper). Upon finding Donna’s old diary Sophie discovers that there were three men: Sam Carmichael (Brosnan), Harry Bright (Firth) and Bill Anderson (Skarsgård) and learns that one of them could be her father. She decides to invite all three of them to her wedding.

  Sophie later reveals this to her friends Ali (Rachel MacDowall) and Lisa (Ashley Lilley) who have agreed to be her bridesmaids. Donna has invited her old friends/bandmates Rosie (Walters) and Tanya (Baranski) to the wedding to help her out. She is however completely unaware of what Sophie has done and is taken by surprise when Sam, Harry and Bill arrive on the island. This causes Donna to have a mid-life crisis, and it is up to Rosie and Tanya to lift her spirits. While at the same time Sophie bonds with the three men, and discovers she has a trait from each of them. Things get complicated when all three men agree to give Sophie away, and realizing the mess she created she faints at her own bachelorette party.

  The next day Sophie runs into Donna who is convinced that she wants the wedding called off. This causes Sophie to yell at Donna, and openly states she wants to avoid all the mistakes Donna has made in her life. At the same time Donna is pursued by Sam, the two realize they still love each other but are too busy for each other. Meanwhile, Tanya is courted by Sky’s friend and best man Pepper (Philip Michael) despite the fact that he is old enough to be her son. Sophie then runs to Sky and admits what she did, angry and hurt Sky runs off. At the same time Sam tells Sophie that marriage is not always a happy thing.

  Sophie then runs back to her mother and asks her to help her dress for the wedding, Donna is delighted and they mend their relationship. Sophie then learns that Donna was disowned by her mother when she got pregnant, she then proceeds to ask Donna to give her away. Donna happily agrees and as the two prepare to go to the chapel she finds herself accosted by Sam. Sam demands to know why Donna will not explain why she won’t talk about their relationship. Donna then says she still loves him despite her better judgement and the fact that he broke her heart by being engaged.

  Donna then proceeds to run into the chapel where the wedding finally begins. As the ceremony begins Donna realizes that she can’t hide the fact that the men are there. She then introduces Sophie’s dad, but then learns that Sophie invited all three of them. They then all decide to be a third of her father, Sophie surprised decides to call off the wedding. Prompting Sky to run away with her and sail the world. Sam meanwhile decides that the wedding should not go to waste, despite Donna’s protest at bigamy. After revealing his divorce Sam pops the question, hesitant Donna accepts it. At the wedding reception Rosie falls in love with Bill, who at first rejects her advances but then ends up loving her too.

  The movie closes with Donna and Sam alongside Bill and Harry bidding Sophie and Sky farewell as they sail away from Kalokairi. Donna, Tanya and Rosie then reprise _Dancing Queen_ during the end credits, and then the rest of the cast appears and they all sing the song _Waterloo_. The movie then finally ends with Sophie singing _Thank You For the Music_ during the end credits.

  Told using several popular ABBA songs including_ Honey, Honey, Honey_, _Dancing Queen_ and the iconic titular song _Mamma Mia_ this movie soundtrack is responsible for making ABBA’s music hit the charts again. Albeit some bad singing (cough)Pierce Brosnan(cough) the soundtrack is wonderful. The movie has some references to other films including _Dirty Dancing_ and _Grease._ Meryl Streep’s performance of Donna Sheridan is an amazing example of her versatility especially when she sings the love ballad “The Winner Takes It All.” “S.O.S” is an interesting scene Brosnan’s voice is flat but judging by his body language he is enjoying himself.

  If you ignore the bad singing, you will be able to enjoy this film. I highly recommend it and the soundtrack. However, due to royalties and disagreements with UNICEF UMG and Decca Records could not secure the rights to the song _Chiquitita_ which explains why it is not on the CD.

  If you have not seen this movie, then what are you waiting for?! Stream it or buy it and do it before July 20 because that is when it’s highly anticipated sequel hits theaters!

  > It’s very Greek! – Rosie