The dynamic between Daniels' vigorous, if self-involved, artist father and Paquin's initially sullen, eventually self-discovering teenager is warmly and believably conveyed, with both thesps doing strongly individualistic work.
Fly Away Home
To achieve the incredible, you have to attempt the impossible.
1996 · 1h 47m · PG
Adventure, Drama, Family
Directed by
Carroll Ballard
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Fly Away Home
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Carroll Ballard Director
- Jeff Daniels as Thomas "Tom" Alden
- Anna Paquin as Amy Alden
- Dana Delany as Susan Barnes
- Terry Kinney as David Alden
- Holter Graham as Barry Stickland
- Jeremy Ratchford as Glen Seifert
- Michael J. Reynolds as General Hadfield
- Deborah Verginella as Amy's Mother
- David Hemblen Cast
- Ken James Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
It's a movie about dreamers that, for once, doesn't make you feel like a sap for buying into their dreams.
From bumbling infants to majestic adults, a flock hasn't been this charismatic onscreen since Hitchcock went bird-watching.
The tender beauty of Carroll Ballard's ''Fly Away Home'' goes well beyond what might be expected from a movie about things that hatch.
Anna Paquin proves again what an expressive, soulful actress she is, and Daniels' madcap dad is a winning study in hippy ingenuity and indefatigability.
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