The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA.
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Stars: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795421/
20 songs in the Soundtracks, all Written by Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus & 5 with Stig Anderson.
Enjoyable, but I just don't buy the impromptu marriage.
Very glad to have another full-out movie musical in 2008, especially one that is about adult humans in live action.
IMDb trivia: "The stage play first opened in London on April, 6th, 1999, at the Prince Edward theater. Its North American debut was May 23rd, 2000, at Toronto's Royal Alexandra Theatre. The original Toronto cast then started Mamma Mia!'s pre-Broadway tour in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago. During the Chicago performances, Louise Pitre and Tina Maddigan were invited to play their same roles in the original Broadway cast. The Broadway opening, directed by Phyllida Lloyd, was October 18th, 2001, at the Winter Garden Theater, the former home of "Cats". The play was nominated by the 2002 Tony Awards for Best Musical and Best Book; Pitre was nominated for Best Actress in a Musical. By January 2010, the play had exceeded forty-seven hundred performances on Broadway, and is the tenth longest running Broadway show ever (February, 2013). As of April 2007, Mamma Mia! has open productions in: New York City, London, Las Vegas, Madrid, Moscow, Stuttgart, Fukuoka, Gothenburg, and Essen. The U.S. and International touring companies have performed in cities all over the globe, including Melbourne, Australia, Utrecht, The Netherlands, and Copenhagen and Horsens, Denmark. According to "Variety", the play's original producer and writer "were broke when they first tried to put the show together, and were even snubbed by the Swedish pop group whose music formed the basis for the show. They are now two of the wealthiest women in England.""
Interesting that the 2018 sequel has a higher rating: 6.8 (51,036).
Rated 6.4 (186,853)
Universal & more, dir. Lloyd; 6+
