In A Flash

Watch Meryl Streep Rock Out in the First Trailer for Ricki and the Flash

We finally have the first trailer for what might be Vanity Fair Hollywood’s most anticipated performance of the summer. That’s right, folks. This is the movie that Meryl Streep went to rock-star boot camp for. This is the role that had Streep shredding the guitar so hard her fingers bled. This is Ricki and the Flash.

The movie musical boasts the triumphant return of director Jonathan Demme and a very autobiographical script from Diablo Cody. Based on the life of Cody’s own mother-in-law, Ricki and the Flash follows Streep as a bona fide rocker babe who is picking up the pieces of her life as she re-unites with her family. Also starring Kevin Kline, Mamie Gummer (Streep’s real-life daughter), Audra McDonald, Sebastian Stan, and Rick Springfield, Ricki and the Flash jams into theaters on August 7.

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