A musician who gave up everything for her dream of rock-and-roll stardom returns home, looking to make things right with her family.A musician who gave up everything for her dream of rock-and-roll stardom returns home, looking to make things right with her family.A musician who gave up everything for her dream of rock-and-roll stardom returns home, looking to make things right with her family.
- Awards
- 4 nominations
Jim Wheeler
- Elvis Guy
- (as Big Jim Wheeler)
Aaron Moten
- Troy
- (as Aaron Clifton Moten)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe guitar that Greg pawns is really owned by Rick Springfield. This was the same guitar he wrote "Jessie's Girl" on.
- GoofsRicki flies to and from Indianapolis via JetBlue, which does not fly to and from Indianapolis.
- Crazy creditsThe ending credits are accompanied by a clip of Ricki and the Flash singing "Cold One" at the wedding reception.
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Written by the writer of Juno & is very much that style. Dysfunctional family problems that come off as real & not forced.
"Sometimes a girl just needs her mother." Ricki (Streep) is a full time rock star and part time mom. When she is called home to help her daughter Julie (Gummer) who is going through a divorce everyone remembers why she is only a part time mother. All of the tenseness from the past come back up between her and all of her kids and she starts to wonder if she made the right choice with her life. Meryl Streep is a great actress, everyone knows this. The thing that is borderline annoying is that besides being a great actress she can sing, play guitar and pull off playing an aging rock star as perfect as playing a Prime Minister with dementia. As far as the movie goes I did like it but it's nothing super amazing. This movie is written by the same writer of Juno and is very much that style of a movie. Dysfunctional family problems that come off as real and not forced. This is a movie worth watching, but a hard one to review. There is a lot of real, believable conversations in this and the movie keeps you interested and watching the entire time. Overall, nothing that will win any awards but a good and fun lighter movie that is worth watching. I give this a B.
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- cosmo_tiger
- Nov 23, 2015
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- Release date
- Country of origin
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- Language
- Also known as
- Ricki & the Flash
- Filming locations
- 600 Tuckahoe Rd, Yonkers, New York, USA(Barney McNabs Bar)
- Production companies
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
Box office
- Budget
- $18,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $26,822,144
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,610,961
- Aug 9, 2015
- Gross worldwide
- $41,325,328
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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