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Ricki Randazzo, the middle-aged heroine of Jonathan Demme’s minor domestic drama Ricki And The Flash, is the kind of person who would be described as “a character,” were she not already fictional.

As the frontwoman of a bar band in Tarzana, California, she belts outs crowd-pleasing covers (“American Girl,” “Wooly Bully”) in between bad stage patter and anti-Obama rants. She favors block heels, ratty braids, and blue mascara, and has an ugly “Don’t Tread On Me” back tattoo.

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She lives in one of those San Fernando Valley apartment complexes that looks like a motel, and works check-out at a Whole Foods stand-in to make rent. As in Demme’s best early work (Handle With Care, Melvin & Howard), there is both an affection for a uniquely American type of oddball and a clear-eyed sense of their foibles.

At least part of the credit belongs to screenwriter Diablo Cody, who seems to have set out to write a greatest-hits