7.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Documentary, Drama • 2024 • 92 min
The Tuba Thieves (2024)
The Tuba Thieves (2024)
Overview
A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. The film unfolds mimicking a game of telephone, where sound’s feeble transmissibility is proven as the story bends and weaves to human interpretation and miscommunication. The result is a stunning contribution to cinematic language. O’Daniel has developed a syntax of deafness that offers a complex, overlaid, surprising new texture, which offers a dimensional experience of deafness and reorients the audience auditorily in an unfamiliar and exhilarating way.
Starring Cast
Nyeisha Prince • Geovanny Marroquin • Russell Harvard
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Not Rated
Diversity: High
Viewer Rating
7.8
Overview
A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. The film unfolds mimicking a game of telephone, where sound’s feeble transmissibility is proven as the story bends and weaves to human interpretation and miscommunication. The result is a stunning contribution to cinematic language. O’Daniel has developed a syntax of deafness that offers a complex, overlaid, surprising new texture, which offers a dimensional experience of deafness and reorients the audience auditorily in an unfamiliar and exhilarating way.
Starring Cast
Nyeisha Prince • Geovanny Marroquin • Russell Harvard
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
Political: Not Rated
The political bias of the film cannot be assessed as there is no available information regarding its plot, central themes, or narrative direction. A determination requires more comprehensive details about the movie's content.
Diversity: High
Confidence: High
The film features intentional casting choices, including prominent deaf actors, which reflects its thematic exploration of sound, silence, and diverse sensory experiences. The narrative centers on these unique perspectives without explicitly critiquing traditional identities.
Secondary
LGBTQ: N/R
There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.
Trans: N/R
There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Medium
The Tuba Thieves introduces original characters. There are no instances of characters previously established as one gender in source material, historical records, or prior adaptations being portrayed as a different gender in this film.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
The Tuba Thieves is an original film featuring characters created specifically for this production. There are no established characters from prior canon whose race could have been altered, therefore no race swap occurred.
Family Values: N/R
There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.
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