FilmSeries· 2008· Musical

Mamma Mia!

by Phyllida Lloyd

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Mamma Mia!

Musical · 1999

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Phyllida Lloyd's 2008 film adapts the stage musical she had directed since its 1999 London premiere, with Catherine Johnson's book and the ABBA songs by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. Meryl Streep plays Donna, and the plot is the musical's: a daughter invites the three men who could be her father to her wedding on a Greek island.

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A woman getting married on a Greek island invites the three men who might be her father, without telling her mother. Filmed on Skopelos with a cast who mostly cannot sing and were not asked to, which is the reason it worked: it is a holiday rather than a performance, and it took the jukebox musical to the whole world.

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