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When her dad comes down with a jock itch, his teenage daughter melts in a puddle of awkward as she gestures to convey an inflamed genital rash to the doctor, then translates a prescriptive recommendation of abstinence to her mother.

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The UK-born Jones apparently learned to sign, sing, and put on an American accent for the role, and youвЂ™d never know it - she holds the movie together in an astonishing breakout performance.Д¬ircumstance puts extra, often funny-in-retrospect hurdles in front of Ruby and her family. As they talk through their issues, Frank, Jackie, Leo, and Ruby swing from low to high emotions, and the physicality of the performances are absorbing. On the same note, thereвЂ™s a fearlessness to prolonged dialogue scenes playing out in ASL. Heder leaves no anthropological distance between her camera and the subjects, ensuring that the movie never вЂњothersвЂќ the Deaf characters, while still making sense of how much we rely on hearing for simple tasks. The quote that says it all: вЂњI canвЂ™t always be that person.вЂќДoes it get there? Authentic, sensitive, and playful, CODA remains human even as it tugs at the heartstrings.

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Replacing the ticking clock with a warmer tone, the family drama aims to both portray the challenges of growing up culturally Deaf, and look beyond disabilities to recognize that lifeвЂ™s hardships, whether in a world full of sound or not, are universal. In CODA, she again slices off a piece of life and pops it in a pressure cooker. WhatвЂ™s CODA trying to do? Writer-director SiГўn Heder ( Orange Is the New Black) previously made the 2016 Netflix premiere Tallulah, which followed a homeless teenager who inadvertently kidnaps a baby that she believes needs rescuing from an irresponsible mother. The growing intensity of her Berklee audition rehearsals and a blossoming relationship with her fellow choirmate, Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peele), pressurize the already intensely intimate scenario.

Her musical pursuits raise the question of what her family will do without her everyone is perfectly functional in navigating society without vocal speech, but juuuust dependent enough on Ruby as a business liaison that no one can imagine her leaving home. A crackdown on fishing boats puts her father and brotherвЂ™s deafness under systematic scrutiny and threatens the local fishing industry at large.

In this microcosmic moment, everything Ruby knows begins to change. After catching the eye of the firebrand music teacher (Eugenio Derbez) during a show-choir audition, Ruby suddenly sees a path for her future: vocal training, the Berklee College of Music, and a life beyond her family. SheвЂ™s an animated, no-bullshit character while gabbing around the dinner table with her mom, Jackie (Marlee Matlin), or negotiating a fish sale, but at school, she canвЂ™t find her voice. In the mornings, she lends her father, Frank (Troy Kotsur), and brother, Leo (Daniel Durant), an ear and an extra pair of hands as they trawl for fish off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts. SheвЂ™s a daughter, a student, a musician, a fisherman, and a translator. Longerline: As a CODA, a Child of Deaf Adults, Ruby juggles multiple roles at the young age of 18. Logline: As her senior year comes to an end, Ruby (Emilia Jones), the only hearing person in her Deaf family, is torn between studying music at college and remaining at home to help - and maybe save - the family fishing business.

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