Fly Away Home Reviews
Magical, moving, beautiful.
Simply magical and touching. Daniels' best role ever. A beautiful film.
Very good movie I highly enjoyed this film. 7.3/10.
Childhood right here!
I can describe this movie in 1 sentence. Beautiful, heartwarming, fun and an adventure for all families who love stories about a familly who will stop at nothing to help a group of geese find their way home.
One of my top 5 favourite movies, with the most brilliant opening scene I have ever seen. A well-acted story about grief, kindness, love, and healing, with an excellent environmentalist message, beautiful cinematography. The end scene ties the movie together beautifully.
I saw this movie on Netflix. I loved this movie, the music especially. I was saddened to find that they didn't release a soundtrack. While a little folksy, it is nevertheless a funny and heartwarming story about a girl's relationship with her father in a home she is struggling to remember. Amy is trying to cope with her mother's death, then has to move halfway across the world and get used to new family members, her father's workaholic bachelor life, and her father's girlfriend. Just as she is ready to give up, she becomes the mother to fifteen abandoned Canadian geese. Her father and friends put together an elaborate scheme to teach the geese to fly and chaos ensues as Amy and her father lead their flock south for the winter. A touching story of life and love. I recommend it highly.
Geese being escorted by planes? It really happened and Fly Away Home is a dramatization of how it happened with Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin, in her first full-length motion picture after her Academy Award-winning performance, leading the way.
I thought it was a beautiful, heart-warming story with a very happy ending... something you never see these days! A must see for a family especially.
I'm an adult and this movie is probably directed at kids and teens, but I really enjoyed it. Very engaging, heartwarming, and inspiring.
Nowhere near as cute as it sounds.
I was gonna give this movie 3 1/2 stars but I think that 3 stars is a good rating. I grew up watching this movie and watched it many times. I have not seen this movie in a long time, I should watch it again soon. Anna P. and Jeff Daniels are a great father daughter pair. heartwarming feelgood film about a father and daughter breeding and raising geese one of my fave movies from the 90's back in the day. Go give this movie a watch and some love 3 stars.
-Most beautiful Hollywood feature-length, live-action film ever made. Not just beautifully composed in terms of Caleb Deschanel's magnificent camerawork, as well as the dialogue and the music; it is also a beautiful story with a great director and great actors to tell it. Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney, and their director Carroll Ballard are altogether the perfect combination for bringing the timeless family picture, which is loosely based on the endeavours of Bill Lishman, Joe Duff, and the Ultra-Geese, to the screen.
This film is an important example of how two individuals can go from being complete strangers to functioning as a family once they both have a main goal of succeeding. Although biologically related, both Thomas and Amy do not have an established relational bond between one another, and it was not until they worked with Amy's geese that they had any kind of emotional relationship as father and daughter. The traditional role as a father is challenged as Thomas is forced to take on this new position after Amy's mother died and Amy comes to reside with him. In addition, one can see how marriage and the family dynamic itself changes within this film as Thomas becomes a single parent taking care of his daughter which goes against the traditional model of what a family looks like. Overall, this film really focused on how a family can be built from scratch just out of a basic goal like helping geese learn how to fly.
Some things start out big. Some start out small, very small. But sometimes even the smallest things can make the biggest changes of all. Dinosaur (2000) Opening narration "I saw something out of a dream" Fly Away Home A tale of Innocence. A flight of Dream. A epic of Love. An odyssey of Humanity. An ode to Life. A true inspiration from a foregone age! Some films when you are watching them you are counting the minutes towards the time when the credits start rolling and you are delivered from the agony of a stiff neck. These have been dominating the industry since some time in the early 2010s. Then there are, or should I say, were, such a precious few, of which you wish to God to erase your every last bit of recollection, so you might be able to enjoy that electric sensation over and over again like a first love. This falls snugly into latter category, the kind that alas this mindless age simply cannot produce.