CODA (2021)

Once in a great while, the studios make a feel-good movie that isn't sappy and delivers a meaningful message. That's the case in CODA (Children of Deaf Adults). HS student Ruby Rossi (Emilia Jones in a terrific performance) is the only speaking/hearing member of a family (mother, father, older brother) who run a fishing boat business. They need her as their ttranslator and interface with the business/political world that constantly menaces the family business. She's torn between accepting a singing scholarship to music school and her family's needs. The all manage to work it out, eventually, with histrionics, guilting and love. She did her own singing (excellent) and learned signing. Troy Kotsur, who plays her farther, is deaf and won Best Supporting Actor--the movie was Best Picture.