Ricki and the Flash
- warm
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →Meryl Streep stars as Ricki Rendazzo, a guitar heroine who made a world of mistakes as she followed her dreams of rock-and-roll stardom. Returning home, Ricki gets a shot at redemption and a chance to make things right as she faces the music with her family.
Our read · Ricki and the Flash (2015) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
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The shape of Ricki and the Flash
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Meryl Streep playing bar-band rock and messy family repair.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if estranged-family drama and suicide references feel too heavy tonight.
The reading.
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