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Release Date: 1996

Cast: Judith Orban, David Hemblen, Deborah Verginella, Jeremy Ratchford, Sarena Paton, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Jeff Daniels, Michael J. Reynolds, Terry Kinney, Ken James, Nora Ballard ...MORE

Cast: Judith Orban, David Hemblen, Deborah Verginella, Jeremy Ratchford, Sarena Paton, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Jeff Daniels, Michael J. Reynolds, Terry Kinney, Ken James, Nora Ballard, Holter Graham, Joe Pantoliano, Carmen Lishman ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Adventure, Family, Family Drama, Drama Film, Coming Of Age

Fly Away Home is a 1996 drama and comedy film directed by Carroll Ballard, the director of The Black Stallion (1979). The film stars Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels and Dana Delany. The story follows a young girl from New Zealand who survives a car crash that results in the death of her mother. The young girl is sent to live with her father on an Ontario farm, where she adopts a brood of baby Canada geese. When the birds are imprinted with her as their Mother Goose, she realizes that unless she and her father can teach the birds a migration route from Ontario to North Carolina, the birds will... MORE

Fly Away Home is a 1996 drama and comedy film directed by Carroll Ballard, the director of The Black Stallion (1979). The film stars Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels and Dana Delany. The story follows a young girl from New Zealand who survives a car crash that results in the death of her mother. The young girl is sent to live with her father on an Ontario farm, where she adopts a brood of baby Canada geese. When the birds are imprinted with her as their Mother Goose, she realizes that unless she and her father can teach the birds a migration route from Ontario to North Carolina, the birds will not be able to survive the winter. The solution comes in the form of ultralight aircraft that is used to guide the birds to sanctuary. The film has mostly positive critical reviews, receiving an 85% approval rating from Rotten Tomatoes. The film was loosely based on the real-life experiences of Bill Lishman, a Canadian inventor, artist, and ultralight aircraft hobbyist. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Lishman openly wondered whether geese and similar birds could be taught new migration patterns by following ultralight aircraft onto which they had been imprinted. In 1993, after several years LESS