CODA (aka Children of Deaf Adults)

[Opens Aug. 13 in theaters and available on Apple TV+.] Siân Heder's poignant, captivating, award-winning, well-acted, bittersweet, humorous, risqué, coming-of-age, 111-minute film adapted from the 2014 French film "La Famille Bélier" in which a talented, ASL-signing, 17-year-old high school student (Emilia Jones), who dreams of a singing career and lives with her deaf parents (Marlee Matlin and Troy Kotsur) and older deaf brother (Daniel Durant) in Massachusetts, spends a lot of time interpreting for her family as they struggle to make a living fishing, and when she has a chance to perform with a smitten, guitar-playing partner (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) in the school musical and to audition for a prestigious music school near Boston with the help of her devoted, no-nonsense choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez), she becomes torn as to what direction her life should take because of her dependent family.
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