Jones - previously a little wasted in Netflix's Locke & Key - is surely a star to watch, absolutely tremendous in her performance, whilst Marlee Matlin and the hilarious Troy Kotsur are great as the parents.
She doesn't just have to get up at 3am every day to go out on the fishing trawler before she goes to high school and gets mocked for stinking of fish and falling asleep in class, but she also has to put aside her potential dream of singing just so she can be interpreter for her parents and brother. This isn't a pity-party, nor does it present deafness as some kind of secret superpower, instead bravely using a largely deaf cast (you'd think that would be the only choice, but the Studios very nearly had their way when wanting to restrict it to just one deaf cast member) to spend a few unabashed days in their company, and giving us Emilia Jones' Ruby as a doorway into their lives, whilst at the same time showing her own struggles. Tallulah director Sian Heder - who has since, unsurprisingly, signed a deal with Apple - does a masterful job at spinning up a tale that is quite so revealing and insightful, without being patronising and artificial in its honest portrayal of a deaf family.
The cast are perfect, their performances spot-on, and most likely - even after Sound of Metal - you'll find this utterly and invaluably insightful
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