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MPAA Rating: PG13 | Year: 2008 | Running Time: 108 minutes

Longing to discover the identity of her true father before she exchanges her wedding vows, the daughter of a once-rebellious single mother secretly invites a trio of paternal candidates to her upcoming wedding in this feature adaptation of the beloved stage musical. Independent-minded single mother ...more

Every facial expression, hand gesture, bodily movement, and rhapsodic musical number in Mamma Mia! is exaggerated with grandiosity. Being the big screen adaptation of an extremely popular Broadway show, the characters and their emotions are supposed to be exhibited with an overdose of musical melodrama. But lurking underneath the film's airy singing and dancing routines, set to the discography of Abba, who specialized in Swedish pop confections, is an exploration of gender roles, the generation ...more

  • abby j

    posted on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:28:18

    FREAKIN AWESOME!!!!!!!

    this is the most incredible movie...when the characters sing they make you want to sing with them!in fact i did!Meryl Streep did an superb job in this movie.She is Fantastic in anything she does but in this movie she had me singing with her!When you leave the movie you have all the songs stuck in your head..which is normaly a bad thing but in this case it's a good thing.All the songs are so joyous and fun that you want to keep hearing them..ABBA is fabulous!They have the most amazing songs!I would recomend this movie to anyone.It just makes you so happy after so watch it.I would give 10 stars if i could!

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  • Jul 27
  • 2
  • $27,605,376
  • -
  • 2976
  • $27,605,376
  • 1
  • Aug 03
  • 3
  • $17,865,250
  • -36%
  • 2990
  • $62,713,990
  • 2
  • Aug 10
  • 4
  • $13,120,670
  • -26%
  • 3062
  • $87,975,280
  • 3
  • Aug 17
  • 6
  • $8,080,820
  • -36%
  • 3194
  • $104,016,745
  • 4
  • Aug 24
  • 7
  • $6,497,995
  • -21%
  • 2771
  • $116,415,460
  • 5
  • Aug 31
  • 9
  • $4,303,100
  • -29%
  • 2326
  • $124,458,160
  • 6
  • Sep 07
  • 8
  • $4,418,160
  • 2%
  • 1968
  • $131,508,840
  • 7
  • Sep 14
  • 9
  • $2,713,200
  • -36%
  • 1904
  • $136,297,305
  • 8
  • Sep 21
  • 12
  • $1,744,550
  • -39%
  • 1517
  • $139,317,885
  • 9


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