Continuity mistake: During the wedding of Donna and Sam, the rings on Donna's fingers are disappearing and reappearing.
Continuity mistake: When Sam and Harry's taxis arrive at the pier, the sunlight casting on the pavement changes dramatically between shots.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Donna is crying and having her nose wiped her nose is very red. As soon as she leaves the building and crawls on the roof her nose is just fine.
Continuity mistake: During Does Your Mother Know one of the girls in the background has red sunglasses which she wears in one shot and doesn't in the next - it keeps changing.
Continuity mistake: When Lay All Your Love on Me starts, right before Sophie's first singing lines, she has some hair in front of her face. But, when it switches to a shot in front of her as she continues to sing, she immediately has no hair in front of her face. She didn't have the time to move it out of the way in-between shots.
Continuity mistake: During the song "The winner takes it all" at one point 4 people are walking up the mountain in the background, 2 in white and 2 in mint green. The next shot they are gone.
Continuity mistake: Just as Donna starts singing the last of 'Slipping Through My Fingers' Sophie is put on a donkey to be taken up to the hall for her wedding. Donna and Sam are left alone and Donna sings "The Winner Takes it All' but when she gets up to the hall the donkey is nowhere to be seen.
Continuity mistake: When Sophie is about to send the letters, the first one to Sam has wrinkles on the left, but is smooth in the following angle.
Answer: If you checked the trivia section, you would have your answer, but here it goes...."While neither the stage show nor the film reveals who Sophie's real father is, there is an official answer. According to Catherine Johnson and Phyllida Lloyd, Sophie's real father is Bill. Bill's character was Australian in the original stage production, but in the film he became a Swede instead, and he's played by Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård."
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