Cody, Streep, Demme team up for "Ricky and the Flash"

Meryl Streep plays an aging rocker in Diablo Cody's new dysfunctional family comedy

May 7, 2014 at 4:42PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Diablo Cody's next feature arrives next summer with a top star and teriffic director attached. TriStar Productions will release "Ricky and the Flash" June 26, 2015. The comedy drama stars Meryl Streep as a woman who abandoned her family to find fast-lane fortune and fame as a rock star. Decades later she returns,trying to reconnect with her estranged kids, one of whom is navigating a rocky divorce. Jonathan Demme ("Stop Making Sense," "The Silence of the Lambs," "Philadelphia") directs.

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