Fly Away Home

Name: Fly Away Home
Released: 1996-9-13
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney, Holter Graham

Fly Away Home

PG
1h 47m
1996

87%

age 8+

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Young Amy (Academy Award® winner Anna Paquin - 'The Piano') is reunited with her father (Jeff Daniels - '101 Dalmations') after a nine year separation. One day, Amy discovers a nest of orphaned goose eggs and decides to take them home and nurture them until they hatch. When the newly hatched goslings adopt her as their Mother Goose, Amy and her father become airborne adventurers, battling against bad weather and a host of other pitfalls in their efforts to teach the geese to fly.

Director:

Carroll Ballard

Producer:

John Veitch, Carol Baum

Writer:

Vince McKewin, Robert Rodat

Cast:

Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney, Holter Graham, Jeremy Ratchford

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

87%

Critics Consensus: Well-acted and beautifully filmed, Fly Away Home offers heartwarming entertainment for moviegoers of all ages.

Reviews

Rachel's Reviews (YouTube)

Rachel Wagner

It feels like a believable family unit.

No better children's film has appeared all year, but my bet is it'll be the grown-ups, not the kids, who come away with a lump in the throat.

Thrilling, touching adventure for animal lovers.

August 15, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Variety

Todd McCarthy

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.

June 21, 2017

Common Sense Media

age 8+

Common Sense Says

Thrilling, touching adventure for animal lovers.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that Fly Away Home is a poignant and inspiring film about a 13-year-old girl from New Zealand sent to live with her father in Canada after her mother dies in a car accident. The car accident at the beginning may be difficult for younger viewers and for anyone who has experienced a similar tragedy. But Fly Away Home's message of concern and protection of Canada geese and their habitats, and the inventive ways Amy and Tom Alden work together to save them, should delight animal lovers of all ages. As a "mother goose" to the gaggle of geese she helps to fly south for the winter, Amy shows a great deal of care and conviction.