Fly Away Home
Fly Away Home
PG | 13 September 1996 (USA)
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Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest was torn down. The eggs hatch and Amy becomes "Mama Goose". When Winter comes, Amy, and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South.

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Linbeymusol

Wonderful character development!

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Btexxamar

I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

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HeadlinesExotic

Boring

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Invaderbank

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

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San John

I watched this movie when I was really young. It has some powerful magic and beautiful cinematography. Really go and see it if you haven't seen it!

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BelmaresJodene

I saw this film a few months ago and I did not like it. Where do i start the storyline is just about as dull as you can get. The only thing that saved this from getting a one was the fairly good acting. The story is simple a teenage girl loses her mother in a car crash, she goes to the hospital and is picked up by her estranged father. then she tries to isolate from the rest of the world but what really made me mad about this movie is how bratty, rude annoying and stuck up she was, and the whole geese thing was way overdone. Another thing that annoyed me was that stupid little chant she kept on doing. She also was not very bright she refused to go to school she flew some kind of glider even though she knew she could not fly it. If you are looking for a movie to watch I strongly suggest you stay away from this one. final evaluation 3/10.

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budoinst@aol.com

How anyone cannot like and appreciate this movie is beyond me. It has an incredible background in fact and is a moving tribute to the human spirit. It also strongly shows that all is not completely lost in the human race and that there is care among us and our fellow beings.What an inspiring movie and so well filmed and documented. Each time it is on, I watch it without fail. So nice to see true human caring and responsibility to all things.We can all learn something from the unwavering focus and support from so many people in overcoming the charge and many times unnecessary destruction of what is left of our former world and mostly in the name of greed and money. It is so nice to see greed being beaten back! We all can learn from this wonderful film.

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robert-temple-1

Up we go! Caleb Deschanel's cinematography of flying geese is more than merely uplifting, like the film, it is extraordinary, and well deserved its Oscar nomination. This charming and delightful film is based upon the well-known fact that birds can 'imprint' on whoever or whatever is there when they hatch, and in this case it is the 14 year-old actress Anna Paquin. She was well worth imprinting on, as she is every bit as delightful as the film as a whole. Now that she is all grown up and glamorous, I wouldn't mind imprinting on her myself. - Give me an eggshell, quick! - The story is a wonderful fable about the girl who saves the goose eggs, hatches them, and becomes their Momma. They follow her around everywhere, but wild geese have to migrate, so she is faced with the dilemma: what to do at migration time? The girl's father is an eccentric, beautifully portrayed by Jeff Daniels. He is always tinkering with machines and likes to build what we now call 'micro-lites', tiny planes with engines that go 'put put' and carry a single person at low altitudes. So you guessed it, father and daughter get into their micro-lites and lead the geese south! Apparently, wild geese will follow a micro-lite if it is shaped like a goose. The story is a magnificent fable which is just believable, sensitively portrayed and with fabulous cinematography and special effects. It is what is called these days, amidst all the blood and gore and obsession with closeups of copulation, a 'family film', meaning no murders take place and people do something other than have sex all the time. (In a normal Hollywood movie it would be impossible to take the geese south because it would mean the director could not ask lots of actresses to take their clothes off.) Carroll Ballard directs this film really well. He is one of those rare directors who does not want to have all his characters mown down by machine guns or chopped to pieces by maniacs, and he does not want to invent unnecessary bath scenes where the girls show their tits so that he can get his jollies. He also likes animals a lot, and that is always a good sign that he might himself not be a monster like so many other directors are. Any normal person (and there still are some) would have to enjoy this film. It is what used to be called 'heart-warming'. In this era of cold hearts, we need that.

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