Take a chance on me

The stage version, on which this is based (by the original London director Phyllida Lloyd, but her first movie), was eventually watched by 30 million people worldwide. It was all inspired by a movie set in Italy, Buona Sera Mrs Campbell (1968) starring Gina Lollobrigida. This version has 22 Abba songs from the 1970s.

In Mamma Mia! Donna Sheridan (Streep) has a daughter Sophie (acted by Amanda Seyfried) who has grown up on a Greek island and now at 20 has met her true love Sky (Dominic Cooper) and they are getting married. There is one catch to this, Donna has never told Sophie who her father is. Sophie, having lived all her life in romantic splendour, dreams of a white wedding in a church with her father, walking down the isle leaning on his arm.