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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 Columbia Pictures. Fly Away Home dramatizes the actual experiences of Bill Lishman who, in 1986, started training ...
Recently viewed. Fly Away Home: Directed by Carroll Ballard. With Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney. Amy moves to Ontario to live with her father after the death of her mother. Her father, an aviation expert, helps Amy lead a flock of orphaned geese south for the winters.
- Carroll Ballard
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Sep 13, 1996 · Action. “Fly Away Home” tells the story of a 13-year-old girl who solos in an ultralight aircraft to lead a flight of pet geese from Canada to the American South. Although her father optimistically describes this adventure as “safer than driving on the highway,” I think the statistics he’s thinking of apply to scheduled commercial ...
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete. Jeff Daniels. ... Thomas Alden. Anna Paquin. ... Amy Alden. Dana Delany.
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Thirteen-year-old Amy Alden is riding with her mother Aliane on a rainy night in New Zealand. A distracted Aliane is speaking on her cellular phone when a truck crashes into the car, sending it tumbling across the road. Amy wakes up in the hospital the next day. Her estranged father Thomas Alden is there, telling her he’s come from Canadato take he...
Thomas Alden : Jeff DanielsAmy Alden : Anna PaquinSusan Barnes : Dana DelanyDavid Alden : Terry KinneyBarry Strickland : Holter GrahamGlen Seifert : Jeremy RatchfordRights to Bill Lishman's story were purchased by Columbia Pictures in 1994 after 20/20 aired a segment on the Canadian inventor piloting his ultralight aircraft followed by a flock of geese in 1993.Fly Away Home never had a complete, definite script to begin with. Bill Lishman's work and writings were the main inspiration, and a story was elaborated around this. Jeff Daniels initially felt th...Pilot doubles stood in for Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquinwho never flew the aircrafts themselves, only handled them on the ground. Close-ups of the actors flying the planes were shot in front of a gr...Some 60 Canada geese were used for filming since the goslings grew and changed too rapidly for the same flock to be used for the whole production.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 Columbia Pictures .
Sep 13, 1996 · When Winter comes, Amy, and her dad must find a way to lead the birds South. Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a local forest was torn down.
