Character Relationship Map: Fetching Cody

Characters

• Art (played by Jay Baruchel) — protagonist

  Art is the central figure, a determined friend who tries to protect Cody from the consequences of addiction, homelessness, and her failing health. After she enters a coma, he becomes convinced that a...

• Cody (played by Sarah Lind) — protagonist

  Cody is Art's closest friend and the person motivating his increasingly desperate actions. She is hospitalized in a coma with reportedly failing kidneys, while hospital staff assume she lives on the s...

• Harvey (played by Jim Byrnes) — supporting

  Harvey is a helpful man Art meets after his bicycle is stolen. He offers Art a dry place to sleep at a workplace on Cordova Street and gives him warm clothes. Harvey also discusses unusual knowledge a...

• Holden (played by Lucas Blaney) — supporting

  Holden is a named participant in a family dinner that Art revisits while experimenting with the apparent time machine. The available plot information gives no further characterization, but his presenc...

• Santa (played by Ken Jones) — supporting

  Santa is an old man dressed as Santa who interrupts Art and Cody's conversation. His behavior amuses and unsettles Art, fitting the unpredictable atmosphere surrounding their discussion of supernatura...

• David Helmet Yar (played by Liam McGuigan) — supporting

  David Helmet Yar appears in the family dinner that Art reaches while revisiting moments connected to Cody. The plot identifies him only through this scene and provides no additional background or acti...

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Art → David Helmet Yar (Shared Social Setting) — Art and David Helmet Yar appear together in a remembered or revisited dinner context.

  Art revisits a family dinner involving Holden and David Helmet Yar.

• Art → Holden (Shared Social Setting) — Art and Holden are connected through the revisited dinner scene.

  Art revisits a family dinner involving Holden and David Helmet Yar.

• Art → Santa (Unknown Strange Encounter) — Santa briefly disrupts Art and Cody's conversation through an unsettling encounter.

  Art's conversation with Cody is interrupted by an encounter with an old man dressed as Santa, whose behavior leaves Art amused and unsettled.

• Art → Harvey (Alliance Benefactor) — Harvey provides Art with practical shelter and support.

  After Art's bicycle is stolen, Harvey offers him a dry place to sleep at a workplace on Cordova Street and gives him warm clothes.

• Art → Cody (Social Best Friends) — Art and Cody share the film's central friendship.

  Cody's mother acknowledges that Art was Cody's best friend. The plot repeatedly shows Art trying to help Cody.

Story Analysis

Art's desperate friendship with Cody drives an ambiguous attempt to use time and memory to change her fate.

Plot Progression

1. Unnoticed Possibilities — Art and Cody discuss travel, flying, supernatural powers, and hidden aspects of reality. Their unusual conversation is interrupted by Santa before Art is called away.
2. Cody's Medical Crisis — Art learns that Cody is in a coma and that her kidneys are failing. He confronts the hospital's assumptions about her homelessness and defends his efforts to protect her.
3. Harvey's Impossible Ideas — After losing his bicycle, Art receives shelter and warm clothes from Harvey. Harvey's ideas about time and memory lead Art to believe that a machine may allow him to change the past.
4. Revisiting Cody's Life — Art repeatedly uses the machine to revisit moments connected to Cody, including her school dropout, hospital photograph, and a dinner involving Holden and David Helmet Yar. Apparent failure makes him...
5. The Uncertain Rescue — Art travels to the period before Cody's coma and tries to bring her to the machine. He later brings flowers and prepares dinner, but an early ambulance arrival leaves the result unresolved.