“People may say I 'can‘t' sing,” Florence Foster Jenkins once said, “But no one can ever say I 'didn’t' sing.”
Women’s rights are a complicated subject. They were in 1913; they are today. And, 'Suffragette' is a complicated, richly detailed period piece, but the struggle it dramatizes — and the very real danger its characters face — is always present. There isn’t much time for tea and crumpets when you have mailboxes (not to mention politicians’ country houses) to blow up.
There are several ways "Ricki and the Flash" might have gone. A fish-out-of-water comedy: punk rocker vs. the gated community. Or earnest family drama with secrets and lies and Oscar-worthy revelations. But, thankfully, Ricki avoids most of these Hollywood formulas. Much of the credit goes to Meryl Streep, of course.
An insider's look at a playwright/producer/screenwriter's working weekend in Hollywood. Many parties are involved.
What's it like out there in Hollywood during Oscars weekend? Playwright/producer/screenwriter Elizabeth Hemmerdinger lets us know.
Reading about horrors even contemporary women face used to make me feel helpless. Then I discovered that there IS something I can do . . . in at least a few of those internationally scandalous abuse cases.
There is an incredible feminist story to be told about Margaret Thatcher, but you won’t find it in this movie.