CODA is a coming of age story set in an East Coast fishing town. Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the only hearing person in her family and always has to interpret for her deaf parents (Tory Kotsur and Marlee Matlin) and brother (Daniel Durant). While the family struggles making a living fishing with higher costs and reduced fish prices Ruby discovers she is a good singer and her music teacher (Eugenio Derbez) prepares her to audition for the Berklee College of Music. And there's the cute choir boy (Fredia Walsh-Peelo) she's crushing on...

This is a movie where deaf characters are prominent and they are important to the story but it's not about being deaf, which I appreciate. I like that there are scenes where the family is "talking" and it's like very quite and even Ruby is signing silently or sometimes signing and talking and the rest are occasionally saying a word.

Other than that a fairly typical story of a high school senior trying to decide what to do with her life. But you don't need everything being new and fresh to make a very good movie and this I feel is a very good movie.