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Fly Away Home [DVD] [1996]

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  • Actors: Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney, Holter Graham
  • Directors: Carroll Ballard
  • Writers: Bill Lishman, Robert Rodat, Vince McKewin
  • Producers: Carol Baum, John M. Eckert, John Veitch, Sandy Gallin
  • Format: Collector's Edition, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 9 Sep 2002
  • Run Time: 103 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00005U0HH
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 31,914 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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There are some filmmaking teams that invariably bring out the best in each other, and that's definitely the case with director Carroll Ballard and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel. They previously collaborated on The Black Stallion and Never Cry Wolf, and Fly Away Home is their third family film that deserves to be called a classic. Inspired by Bill Lishman's autobiography, the movie tells the story of a 13-year-old girl (Anna Paquin) who goes to live with her estranged, eccentric father (Jeff Daniels) following the death of her mother. At first she's withdrawn and reclusive, but finds renewed happiness when she adopts an orphaned flock of baby geese and, later, teaches them to migrate using an ultralight. Sensitively directed and stunningly photographed, the movie has flying sequences that are nothing short of astonishing, and Daniels and Paquin (Oscar winner for The Piano) make a delightful father-daughter duo. --Jeff Shannon

Special Features
Wide Screen
DVD 9
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best family movies I have seen, 17 Oct 2003
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Amy has just lost her mother in a car accident. While wandering around by herself she finds some eggs in a destroyde goose nest. She decides to try to make them hatch. I guess its her way of dealing with her loss.

The movie contains some stunning scenografi as the full 5 minute+ beautiful song "10 000 miles" (by Mary Carpenter) is playing. Can you imagine, in this fast moving world, a movie taking time for that? Almost brings tears in the eyes of a grown up hard-boiled man like me.. Right from the magic opening scene, I was grabbed by this move.

You might say this is not very complex, but sometimes you can find room in your heart for a relativly simple story.

Impressive playing by the young girl, Anna Paquin( youngest Oscar winner ever with "Piano").

ps: sorry for my not-so-good english

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Young girl and dad help young geese fly south for the winter, 21 Jan 2004
By Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fly Away Home [VHS] [1997] (VHS Tape)
The story of "Fly Away Home" is fairly predictable, in that we know full well that young Amy Alden (Anna Paquin) is going to persuade her father, Thomas (Jeff Daniels), to come up with a way of teaching a flock of adopted goslings how to fly and get them to a winter refuge in North Carolina. But predictability is not always a deterrent to a film being enjoyable or even inspirational, and you have to pity someone who cannot enjoy watching a bunch of baby geese running after Anna Paquin, convinced that she is there mother and therefore responsible for imprinting on them what they need to learn to survive. Besides, for what is ostensibly a children's film this one opens with a rather shocking scene, where we see a fatal car accident during the open credits while listening to a gentle melody. If there is anything that indicates this is more than your usual predictable children's film, this would be it.

If there is a flaw in "Fly Away Home" it is that the relationship between daughter and father takes a back seat to the story of the geese, so that the pathos that exists there is almost lost in the flapping of wings (but there is a nice moment and a good line when the father tells his daughter why he know what she can do it). They two have been estranged by distance (he returned to Canada while his wife and daughter lived in New Zealand), and living together is not improving things. He is an eccentric artist and inventor who cannot figure out how to connect with a living human being until the geese that come between them bring them together.

Fortunately, dad is spared the role of being the villain, because there are land developers at both ends of the flight and a wild life officer who knows what the rulebook says about domesticated geese. But those are just minor hurdles to the idea of flying 600-miles in four days in an ultra-light plane for Amy to lead her geese to their promised (wet) land. Yes, the idea that the clock is ticking and that bulldozers are ready to roll in North Carolina is all a bit much, but then there are moments, like when the ultra-lights and geese fly through the skyscrapers of Baltimore than just about take your breath away.

I was not aware until after I watched the film that director Carroll Ballard and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel had previously collaborated on "The Black Stallion," but that certainly makes sense because both films are perfectly willing to let pictures exist without dialogue. The other commonality is that "Fly Away Home" is another film that adults can enjoy just as much as the kiddies.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful enough to crack any cynic..., 9 Jan 2004
This review is from: Fly Away Home [VHS] [1997] (VHS Tape)
I watched this film by accident (one of those christmas movies when you happen to be in front on the TV) and was initailly put off by the schmaltzy synopsis/subject matter; In spite of myself, the beauty of the film combined with extremely believable and endearing characters forced me to shed my cynicism; i was transfixed by the end.

It is a simple but powerful film that stays with you for a long time afterwards.

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