Coda feels trapped by her circumstance. Born into a poor fishing family in Massachusetts, she rises at 3:00 AM to ply the family trade before she heads off to school where she mostly sleeps and doesn’t “do school well”. But she isn’t even trapped by the financial vagaries of her family, she is the only speaking member of her otherwise all deaf family. She is their life interpreter even as that responsibility is keeping her from living the life she most desires. Her gift for singing is at first a revelation to everyone and possibly a means of escape. Avoids every trope a movie like this could find. Delightful and surprising at every turn.

• IMDB 8.1

• Rotten Tomatoes 96%/95%

• (PG-13)