Here’s some great news. The Apple TV+ film CODA, snapped up at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival for a record-breaking fee, is set to land on the big screen where it will play for free. The film will be presented in major cities across the U.S. and London, free-of-charge and with open captions, beginning Friday, February 25 through Sunday, February 27, 2022, so that more theater-goers can experience the touching story of the Rossi family’s journey.
CODA was recently nominated for multiple Academy Awards, including Best Picture and is simply fantastic.
Here’s the synopsis.
17-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones) is the sole hearing member of a deaf family – a CODA, child of deaf adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents (Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur) and working on the family’s struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school’s choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and soon finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo). Encouraged by her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams.
I recently saw the film on a packed plane for the very first time and was simply blown away. I emerged from that short plane journey misty-eyed and completely overwhelmed. It’s a terrific piece of work.
CODA will be re-released in cinemas for a limited theatrical run, at the Barbican, in London. Tickets can be reserved at the end of the link.
Please, Apple, make this available to more venues across the country as this film really deserves to be seen.
Here’s a reminder of this special film.
