The film opens with Ricki playing a set of musical covers as the singer in a local bar's house band. Streep plays the title character, Ricki Rendazzo, an aging rock musician. ![]() (Gummer also had a brief scene in Streep's 2006 film "The Devil Wears Prada" but that scene was dropped in editing.) In 2015, it's the mother-daughter team playing mother and daughter in "Ricki and the Flash" (PG-13, 1:41) – and it's kind of hard to decide which actress did a better job. As an adult, Gummer played a younger version of her mother's character in 2007's "Evening". As a toddler, Gummer had a role in her mother's movie "Heartburn" (1987). Like Jaden Smith (son of Will Smith), Gummer has joined her famous parent on screen while developing her acting skills. Like Emilio Estevez (son of Martin Sheen) and Angelina Jolie (daughter of Jon Voight), Gummer uses a family name (her father's last name) while establishing her own identity in film (and television). The oldest daughter of multiple Oscar winner Meryl Streep, Gummer is making a name for herself in the family business. ![]() It has to be tough to be the child of a living legend, especially in show business, but Mamie Gummer seems to be handling it quite well, thank you very much.
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