Mamma Mia
Mamma Mia! is a 2008 musical/romantic comedy film adapted from the 1999 West End musical of the same name, based on the songs of successful pop group ABBA, with additional music composed by ABBA member Benny Andersson.
- Directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Catherine Johnson
Quotes
[edit]- Sophie: Um... I've invited my dad to my wedding.
- Lisa: You are joking!
- Ali: You found him?
- Sophie: No no no no no no! Not exactly.
- Rosie: [to Tanya] It's very Greek.
- Donna: [hugging Sophie] Look at my baby, her whole life ahead of her.
- Sam Carmichael: Last time I saw your mother she said she never wanted to see me again.
- Donna: I'd better be dreaming, you'd better not be here.
- Donna: [to Rosie and Tanya] Great couple of role models you are for Sophie. Serial bride and little hermit over here.
- Donna: Somebody up there has got it in for me. I bet it's my mother.
- Rosie: Typical, isn't it? You wait 20 years for a dad and then three come along at once.
- Sky: It's my last night of freedom... which is what some might see it, but for me it's the last night before the greatest adventure of my life.
- Donna: Wh-wh what are you all doing here?
- Bill: I'm writing a travel piece.
- Harry Bright: I- I'm on a spontaneous holiday.
- Sam Carmichael: I-I-I I just dropped in to say... hi.
- Tanya: [to Sophie] I bet you don't remember me.
- Rosie: Not with all that plastic surgery.
- Harry Bright: [introducing himself] Bright. Harry Bright.
- Sophie: You took mom's guitar!
- Harry Bright: Um no, no I borrowed it. I bought her this. It cost me ten quid plus my Johnny Rotten T-shirt. See here - where is it? Ah yes. DS: Donna Sheridan. and HB: Head Banger.
- Tanya: Down big fella, I'm old enough to be your mother!
- Rosie: Grandmother.
- Rosie: [to Donna, holding up Tanya's underwear] Does she wear it or floss with it?
- Tanya: Floss you!
- Donna: Is it edible Tanya?
- Rosie: I'm a lone wolf!
- Sophie: [reading Donna's diary] We danced on the beach, kissed on the beach and dot, dot, dot.
- Harry Bright: Bugger.
- Sam Carmichael: My sentiments exactly.
- Donna: I grew up.
- Tanya: Well, grow back down then!
- Sophie: [Bill has just realized that he might be her father] You know what happens next?
- Bill: Don't tell me you have a twin sister.
- Sophie: But I love Sky. I love Sky more than anything.
- Tanya: [before singing 'Does Your Mother Know'] Little boys who play with fire get their fingers burnt.
- Donna: I'd better be dreaming, you'd better not be here.
- Bill: You want me to pinch you, Donna?
- Sam Carmichael: [after Donna falls on Harry's air bed] You always knew how to make an entrance.
- Tanya: [talking about Donna's money troubles and her life in general] Yeah, but are you being taken care of?
- Donna: What do you mean?
- Tanya: Are you getting any?
- Donna: Oh, you mean... [turns on the screw driver] Down, boy.
- Sophie: Do you think I'm letting you down?
- Donna: Why would you even think that?
- Sophie: Oh because, of what you've done! I mean the Dynamos, raising a kid and running a business all on your own...
- Donna: Honey, I didn't have a choice. I couldn't go home. When I got pregnant, my mother told me not to bother coming back. And I wouldn't have had it any other way! My God, look at what we've had!
- Harry Bright: What would the father of the bride normally do?
- Tanya: Pay.
- [beat]
- Tanya: Though my dad drew the line at my 3rd.
- Tanya: This fricking yoga made my feet bigger.
- Donna: The thing about the toilet... if it doesn't flush right away, then go and come back and it'll... nothing works around here except for me.
- Donna: I'm gonna arrange for a boat to take you all back to the mainland.
- Bill: I have a boat, Donna.
- Donna: You have a boat? Good, get on it! And anchors away.
- Sam Carmichael: Donna...
- Donna: Away away.
- Sophie: I wanted to get married knowing who I am.
- Sky: You don't find that from finding your father, Sophie, you find it by finding yourself.
- Donna: I will not be muscled out by an e... jaculation.
- Donna: [about the possible dads] I have brought this all on myself because I was a stupid, reckless little slut!
- Tanya: Don't you sound like your mother!
- Sam Carmichael: Hold on! You're saying I might be Sophie's father, but she might be Bill's or Harry's?
- Donna: Yes, and don't get self righteous with me...
- Sophie: Yeah, if you hadn't left my mother to go off and get married!
- Sam Carmichael: I had to go. I was engaged. But I couldn't do it and I came right back!
- Donna: Wha... why... What... Why didn't you call me?
- Sam Carmichael: Because I was stupid enough to think you would be waiting for me. But when I got there they told me you were off with some other guy.
- Father Alex: And a welcome to Donna, who's representing her side of the family.
- Donna: And a welcome to... Sophie's dad... He's here.
- Sophie: I know, I invited him.
- Donna: How could you? I don't know which one it is... OH MY GOD... that's why they're here!
- Sophie: I'm sorry, please forgive me!
- Donna: I don't know... Can you forgive me?
- Sophie: What? I don't care if you slept with hundreds of men. You're my mother and I love you.
- Donna: Oh, Sophie... And I haven't slept with hundreds of men...
- Tanya: [after a crack loudly appears in the courtyard after "Money, Money, Money] What happened?
- Donna: [laughs] Didja feel it? The Earth moved, darling. We're falling apart here.
- [she snatches the bottle of champagne from Tanya's hands and walks off]
- Tanya: Don't think about it. C'mon. Let's go have fun...
Cast
[edit]- Amanda Seyfried as Sophie
- Stellan Skarsgård as Bill
- Pierce Brosnan as Sam
- Nancy Baldwin as Sam's PA
- Colin Firth as Harry
- Heather Emmanuel as Harry's Housekeeper
- Colin Davis as Harry's Driver
- Rachel McDowall as Lisa
- Ashley Lilley as Ali
- Meryl Streepas Donna
- Julie Walters as Rosie
- Christine Baranski as Tanya
Taglines
[edit]- Take a trip down the aisle you'll never forget
- The Music. The Romance. The Movie
- Everybody Is Coming To Sophie's Wedding.
- Mark The Date. July 18th
- ...Here We Go Again.
- On July 18th, The Wedding Celebration Begins.
- Who said a wedding couldn't be this much fun?
- With every wedding come a few surprises.
- Sophie has just one wish, that will make her wedding perfect. To meet her father...whichever one he is!
- The only missing from Sophie's wedding is the father of the bride...whichever one he is.
- Eine Hochzeit die man nie vergisst. (A Wedding you'll never forget.)
- This summer Take a trip down the aisle you'll never forget
- On July 18th Take a trip down the aisle you'll never forget
- From the worldwide smash-hit musical.
External links
[edit]
- Mamma Mia quotes at the Internet Movie Database