Add playing an aging rock star and being able to deliver a mean guitar lick to Meryl Steep’s impressive resume, as she’s required to do both in her latest, “Ricki and the Flash,” a fun movie as far as it goes, which unfortunately isn’t far enough.
Sporting a script by Diablo Cody (“Juno”), the film takes a standard fish-out-of-water premise — dropping an aging rock ‘n’ roller back into the upper-middle-class world she fled years earlier — and does very little with it, using a standard familial crisis as its foundation but failing to develop it in any meaningful way.
To be sure, the music scenes are fun, but they run too long — I suspect as a distraction from the thin story, which is nothing but an old tune.
For a full review, go to: http://www.news-gazette.com/arts-entertainment/local/2015-08-06/chuck-koplinski-haunting-gift-one-years-best-surprises.html
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