Ricki and the Flash

You have to wonder why actors of the calibre of Streep and Kline chose to appear in this film in which they are given nothing of substance to work with, just shadows of characters. Demme's filmography is odd. It's a bland and predictable film, but not altogether bad if you don't want to be made to work at all as the viewer.

I tried hard to find things to like while watching this, but it lacked even the warmth that I thought was inevitable. A serious waste of Meryl Streep.

Meryl Streep is perfect once again, but the film lacks interesting dialogues that could add profundity to its plot. The music stole away the scene, and to me it felt more like a rock homage than a movie really about those characters.