#Movie coda crack#
Jones is the 17-year-old Ruby, a hardworking high-schooler in the coastal Cape Ann’s Gloucester who habitually wakes up at the crack of dawn every day to help her family-her father Frank (Kotsur) and brother Leo (Durant) and mother Jackie (Matlin)-at their boat and newly found fish sales business. While the family in the well-meaning original were played by hearing cast members (with the exception of the brother brought to life by deaf actor Luca Gelberg), they are all portrayed by real-life deaf performers in Heder’s movie-a sensational group consisting of legendary Oscar winner Marlee Matlin, scene-stealing Troy Kotsur and Daniel Durant-infusing her adaptation with a rare, inherent kind of authenticity. What’s new here-and it makes all the difference in the world-is the cast. Played by the exceptional Emilia Jones (who is blessed with Grade-A pipes), the gifted young girl in question here happens to be one, navigating the intricacies of her identity, passions, and familial expectations, trying to reconcile them without hurting anyone’s feelings, her own included.Īdmittedly, “CODA” is adapted from the French film “La Famille Bélier,” so the idea of it isn’t entirely novel. But by twisting the formula and placing this recognizable story inside a new, perhaps even groundbreaking setting with such loving, acutely observed specificity, she pulls off nothing short of a heartwarming miracle with her film, the title of which is an acronym: Child of Deaf Adult.
It’s not that Heder doesn’t embrace the aforesaid conventions for all their comforting worth-she does. Caring, boisterous, and adorned with the hugest of hearts, “CODA” will prove you wrong.
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