Official RICKI AND THE FLASH International Trailer Enjoy the new RICKI AND THE FLASH international trailer! The film, directed by Jonathan Demme (Philadelphia, The Silence of the Lambs), stars Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Sebastian Stan, Mamie Gummer, and Rick Springfield. RICKI AND THE FLASH will be released in theaters on August 7. Three-time Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep goes electric and takes on a whole new gig – a hard-rocking singer/guitarist – for Oscar®-winning director Jonathan Demme and Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody in the uplifting comedy Ricki and the Flash. In a film loaded with music and live performance, Streep stars as Ricki, a guitar heroine who gave up everything for her dream of rock-and-roll stardom, but is now returning home to make things right with her family. Streep stars opposite her real-life daughter Mamie Gummer, who plays her fictional daughter; Rick Springfield, who takes on the role of a Flash member in love with Ricki; and Kevin Kline, who portrays Ricki’s long-suffering ex-husband.