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If anyone has due cause to hate the first Mamma Mia film, I am confident it is me. I worked at a cinema in Cornwall when the Scandi scud hit screens in summer 2008. If routinely watching it up to four times a day wasn’t punishment enough, the sadistic manager forced his teenage staff to clap and dance before the audience as the cast’s dance party rolled over the credits. We buried our faces in our swampy sleeves, the purpose of our oversized uniforms finally clear.
The film played every day from 10 July until it came out on DVD in late November. That didn’t deter the legions of Streep-seekers who were furious we were no longer showing it. I tried...
If anyone has due cause to hate the first Mamma Mia film, I am confident it is me. I worked at a cinema in Cornwall when the Scandi scud hit screens in summer 2008. If routinely watching it up to four times a day wasn’t punishment enough, the sadistic manager forced his teenage staff to clap and dance before the audience as the cast’s dance party rolled over the credits. We buried our faces in our swampy sleeves, the purpose of our oversized uniforms finally clear.
The film played every day from 10 July until it came out on DVD in late November. That didn’t deter the legions of Streep-seekers who were furious we were no longer showing it. I tried...
- 7/20/2018
- by Laura Snapes
- The Guardian - Film News
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