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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Comedy, Musical, Romance
It is a follow-up to the 2008 film Mamma Mia!, which in turn is based on the West End/Broadway musical of the same name using the music of ABBA.
Both a prequel and a sequel, the plot is set after the events of the previous film, and also features flashbacks to 1979, telling the story of Donna Sheridan's arrival on the island of Kalokairi and her first meetings with her daughter Sophie's three possible fathers.
Directed by: Ol Parker
Starring: Christine Baranski, Pierce Brosnan, Dominic Cooper, Colin Firth, Andy Garcia, Lily James, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård, Julie Walters, Cher, Meryl Streep
Produced by: Judy Craymer, Gary Goetzman
Screenplay by: Ol Parker
Story by: Catherine Johnson, Richard Curtis, Ol Parker
Based on: Mamma Mia! by Catherine Johnson
Music by: Anne Dudley
Cinematography: Robert Yeoman
Edited by: Peter Lambert
Production company: Playtone, Littlestar Productions, Legendary Pictures, Perfect World Pictures
Distributed by: Universal Pictures
Release date: July 16, 2018 (Hammersmith Apollo), July 20, 2018 (United Kingdom & United States)
Running time: 113 minutes
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Language: English
Cast
Christine Baranski as Tanya Chesham-Leigh, one of Donna's best friends and former bandmates in Donna and the Dynamos; a rich three-time divorcee.
Jessica Keenan Wynn as Young Tanya.
Pierce Brosnan as Sam Carmichael, an architect, Sophie's stepfather/possible father, Ruby's son-in-law, and Donna's widower.
Jeremy Irvine as Young Sam.
Dominic Cooper as Sky, Sophie's husband.
Colin Firth as Harry Bright, Sophie's possible father, a British businessman.
Hugh Skinner as Young Harry.
Andy García as Fernando Cienfuegos, the Mexican manager of the Hotel Bella Donna, old lover of Ruby's from 1959.
Meryl Streep as Donna Sheridan-Carmichael, Sophie's mother, Ruby's daughter,
Lily James as Young Donna, founder of Donna and the Dynamos.
Amanda Seyfried as Sophie Sheridan, Donna's 25-year-old daughter and Ruby's granddaughter.
Stellan Skarsgård as Bill Anderson, Sophie's possible father, a Swedish sailor and travel writer, and also as Kurt Anderson, Bill's obese twin brother.
Josh Dylan as Young Bill.
Julie Walters as Rosie Mulligan, one of Donna's best friends and former bandmates in Donna and the Dynamos; a fun-loving author in a relationship with Bill.
Alexa Davies as Young Rosie.
Cher as Ruby Sheridan, Donna's mother, Sophie's grandmother, and Sam's mother-in-law.
Maria Vacratsis as Sofia, Sophie's namesake, a local who owns the shack in which Donna and Sam stay and which eventually becomes Donna's home.
Celia Imrie as the Vice-Chancellor of the university at which Donna, Tanya and Rosie studied.
Omid Djalili as a Greek customs officer.
Jonathan Goldsmith as Rafael Cienfuegos.
Cameo appearances
Björn Ulvaeus as a university professor.
Benny Andersson as the pianist in the Parisian restaurant during "Waterloo".