CODA Is a Bona-Fide Sundance Crowdpleaser, Even Without the Crowds
Save this story for later. The Sundance Film Festival is famous, among many other things, for its crowdpleasers—the out-of-nowhere successes that sweep away the audience at the Eccles Theater or the Library, allowing a stunned cast and crew to take the stage before a cheering throng. It’s the heady origin story that has propelled previous Sundance hits to box office success and acclaim, or sometimes to far worse fates; sometimes it’s hard to know if the energy of the room in Park City will translate at sea level. But CODA, one of the films that opened the Sundance Film Festival on Th...