Mamma Mia! The Movie [DVD] [2008]

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It became the highest grossing live-action musical of all time, until it was surpassed by Bill Condon's Beauty and the Beast in 2017. Academy Award winner Meryl Streep leads an all-star cast, including Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth - as well as up-and-comers Amanda Seyfried and Dominic Cooper, in this musical celebration of mothers, daughters and fathers, and true loves lost and new ones found. There are some purposely softer-focus shots and warm contrast, and fine-object detail is acceptable. Set in a lovely backdrop with lots of sunshine you'll soon be tapping your feet, moving your lips and dancing in your seat!

Starring Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Meryl Streep, Stellan Skarsgaard, Director Phyllida Lloyd Special Features: Anamorphic Widescreen Audio: Dolby Digital 5. Bringing you an all-star cast, the songs of ABBA and an extravaganza of dancing and laughter, Mamma Mia! has become the most successful British film of all time: at the time of writing, it seems set to overtake Titanic as the biggest-ever film in Britain. In blunt but accurate terms, 20-year-old Sophie Sheridan (Seyfried) does not know the identity of her father because her mother Donna (Streep) was sleeping around in the months before Sophie's birth.The Anatomy Of A Musical Number featurette, as well as some of the other bonus features, shows just how exacting a task master Musical Director Martin Lowe was during the making of the film. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. Most of the outdoor scenes were filmed on location at the small Greek islands of Skopelos and Skiathos, in Thessaly (between August 29 and September 2007), [4] [5] and the seaside hamlet of Damouchari in the Pelion area of Greece. She then invites three men, architect Sam Carmichael (Brosnan), sailor Bill Andersson (Skarsgard) and banker Harry Bright (Firth), to her wedding without telling Donna, in hopes that one will be her biological father. musical and how it was turned into a film, including comments from the production team as well as ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.

Meanwhile, Donna must face the past when three different men from her days as a singer come back into her life. DVD is released November 24, 2008, in many territories, and reaches other territories over the next few months.Cinema Paradiso and all other Cinema Paradiso product and service names are trademarks of Pace-e-Solutions Limited or its affiliates. I do not have strong opinions about ABBA; their music has a certain earworm quality, although I do not seek it out. This film benefits from its gorgeous locations and solid cinematography, and this image does offer gorgeous location shots that are bright and colorful. A soundtrack album was released on July 7, 2008, by Decca in the United States and Polydor internationally. On a quest to find the identity of her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna's past to the Mediterranean paradise they visited 20 years earlier.

Like ABBA or not, the group is one of the highest selling acts of all time and considered extremely influential to pop-music history. Meryl Streep took opera singing lessons as a child, and as an adult, she had previously sung in several films, including Postcards from the Edge, Silkwood, Death Becomes Her, and A Prairie Home Companion. With a movie the director has to put themselves right into the middle of the action – close enough to hear breathing. SD), which sees Lloyd, Judy Craymer and Catherine Johnson discuss the musical; Christine Baranski and the Boys (6:17/SD), which focuses on the "Does Your Mother Know" musical number; Breaking Down "Voulez Vous" (5:14/SD); More of "Gimmie! But you may also find out for yourself all the hard work that goes into putting together a movie like Mamma Mia!Credit subject to status, UK residents only, Entertainment Magpie Limited t/a Music Magpie acts as a broker and offers finance from a restricted range of finance providers, PayPal Credit is a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH. You will be able to relive the memories of watching the film in the theatre, and invite your friends to a sing-a-long evening. Downloadable Content: Gain exclusive access to never-before-seen bonus content and new trailers via BD-Live. has a hell of a cast: Meryl Street, Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgard, Julie Walters, Dominic Cooper and Amanda Seyfried.