Fly Away Home (1996)

Directed by

Carroll Ballard

Genre

drama film, biographical film, comedy drama

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

PG

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 516 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A girl moves in with her eccentric father after her mother dies. He builds an ultralight aircraft and she helps him raise a flock of geese, then leads them south for the winter.

upliftinginspiringgentleheartfeltfeel-goodbittersweetvisually expansiveearnest

What happens

Fly Away Home (a.k.a. Flying Wild and Father Goose) is a 1996 family adventure drama film directed by Carroll Ballard. The film stars Anna Paquin, Jeff Daniels, and Dana Delany. Fly Away Home was released on September 13, 1996, by Sony Pictures Releasing. Joseph Caleb Deschanel was nominated for best cinematography at the 69th Academy Awards for his work on the film. Inspired by true events, Fly Away Home dramatizes the actual experiences of Bill Lishman who, in 1986, started training Canada geese to follow his ultralight aircraft, and succeeded in leading their migration in 1993 through his program "Operation Migration". The film is also based on the experience of Dr. William J. L. Sladen, a British-born zoologist and adventurer, who aided Lishman with the migration. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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