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CODA

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• Comedy
• Romance

• 2021
• Sian Heder
• 112 mins
• 12A

Summary

Oscar-winning comedy drama starring Emilia Jones. Ruby is in her senior year at high school, with her whole life ahead of her. However, she is also the sole hearing child of deaf adults, and her spare time is spent helping with the family fishing business. Ruby's priorities begin to change when she joins the school choir, leading to an important life decision affecting her loved ones and her own future happiness.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Kevin Harley

A remake of the 2014 French film La Famille Bélier, writer/director Siân Heder's smartly judged crowd-pleaser distinguishes coming-of-age conventions with rich reserves of salty wit and choppy feeling. Emilia Jones stars as "child of deaf adults" (CODA) Ruby Rossi, the 17-year-old hearing deckhand for her family's Massachusetts fishing operation. But when Ruby's choirmaster, Bernardo Villalobos (Eugenio Derbez), recognises and begins to nurture her vocal talents, tensions build between the teenager's passions and her family commitments. Even if you can see where this is going, Heder and her cast summon the character nuances needed to make the film sing. Deaf actors Troy Kotsur and Marlee Matlin make warm, ribald work of Ruby's loving parents, complemented by Derbez's wry, tangy take on inspirational-teacher clichés. Meanwhile, Jones leads with appealingly awkward, expressive conviction all the way to the genuinely affecting climax: when the inevitable montage and its accompanying tears arrive, they feel earned.

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8.0/10

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Credits

Cast

rolenameRuby RossiEmilia JonesJackie RossiMarlee MatlinFrank RossiTroy KotsurLeo RossiDaniel DurantMilesFerdia Walsh-PeeloBernardo VillalobosEugenio Derbez

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rolenameDirectorSian Heder

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Released on

2021-08-13

Languages

English

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