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Where to watch coda2/20/2023 It's obviously adapted from the 2014 French film LA FAMILLE BELIER, and plays as a mainstream crowd-pleaser, when it just as easily could have been a deep cut indie film. There is a lot going on in this film from writer-director Sian Heder (TALLULAH, 2016). Bernardo explains how her singing voice offers a path to college, something she's never before considered due to family responsibilities. The choir director, Bernardo (roll the r's) Villalobos, is played energetically and colorfully by Eugenio Derbez (OVERBOARD, 2018), and he offers encouragement to Ruby - mostly because she has a beautiful singing voice. With a silent crush on Miles (Ferdio Walsh-Peelo from the excellent SING STREET, 2016), Ruby signs up for choir, but freezes during the audition. At school, Ruby is an outcast due to her clothes, the lingering aroma of fish, and her "weird" family. At home, the dinner table conversation is handled through ASL (American Sign Language) with mom/wife Jackie (Oscar winner Marlee Matlin, CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, 1986) leading the way. Ruby belts out songs while the two men handle their duties, unaware of the lovely melodies filling the air. Emilia Jones (HIGH-RISE, 2015) stars as Ruby, and we first see her slinging fish on the boat with her father Frank (Troy Kutsor) and brother Leo (newcomer Daniel Durant). It is, however, a story of a young person finding their true self and breaking from the ties that bind to the only life she's known. This is no coming-of-age tale, as Ruby has long been wise beyond her years. Ruby also loves to sing and listen to music, activities she can't share with her family. Her older brother is deaf too, meaning Ruby's life has been spent as an interpreter for her family, while also working on the family fishing boat in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where they are treated as outcasts and viewed as oddities by others. She is also a CODA - Child of Deaf Adults.
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