I watched this movie when I was really young. It has some powerful magic and beautiful cinematography. Really go and see it if you haven't seen it!

Fly Away Home is a family oriented, emotionally charged drama in which a young girl's mental recovery from her Mother's death is achieved by a monumental feat. Thrust into her Father Tom's world of inventions and experiments, Amy is lost and uncomfortable in this new environment along with still being vulnerable from her Mother's death, shown in her anxious reactions watching Tom try out his latest invention. Yet it is an aspect of Tom's life that Amy soon finds herself in after discovering Geese eggs, once they hatch Amy is lead down a memorable path of courage and bonding. As Amy begins to raise the Geese as her own Fly Away Home becomes an incredibility touching story where it is hard not to want Amy achieve the goal of getting the Geese to migrate south. Fly Away Home succeeds on an emotional scale in placing the viewer into the predicament Amy faces and the love she feels for the Geese. The cinematography is an additional factor to the heart - tugging vibe, watching the Geese eggs hatch and crawl out of their shells with crystal clear precision as if we are witnessing the birth in person is extraordinary to see and sentimental to feel as they are just as vulnerable as Amy. This sense of vulnerability makes the aerial shots of Amy and Tom leading the Geese to their rightful place in nature later on all the more powerful. It coincides with the soundtrack in relation to Fly Away Home's poignancy, with the use of the song '10, 000 Miles' towards the end of the climatic scene which had been the show piece of the opening credits depicting the death of Amy's Mother increases the atmosphere to the status of a tear jerker, bringing home how much Amy has achieved. However there are some clichés which slightly spoil the experience. Having corporate bosses as antagonists is nothing new and tense moments made to briefly unease the audience most notably when Air Traffic Control are about to send out a war plane on Amy, Tom and the Geese when they are seen as a UFO comes across respectively as platitude and ridiculous. But these are only minor flaws in a film whose good heartedness paves these criticisms over.So if you enjoy story lines with a feel - good vibe and the old fashioned good triumphing over evil, Fly Away Home should be one for you.

I had kind of half meant to watch this movie for ages, and finally did so yesterday.I wish I hadn't waited so long! There are a number of things which make this movie well worth watching.One, it looks great - some fabulous scenery filmed during the always photogenic autumn.Two, that great look includes much scarcely believable aerial photography featuring a flock of geese following a microlight aircraft.Three, at the heart of the movie is a fragile relationship between a father and daughter who scarcely know each other, beautifully portrayed by Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin.The film is good to look at, and always interesting and emotionally engaging.A small masterpiece.

Based on a true story, this is a cute and cuddly film for both the kids and the grown-ups. Basically after the death of her mother in New Zealand, 13-year-old Amy Alden (Anna Paquin) goes to Canada to live with her eccentric inventor father Thomas 'Tom' (Jeff Daniels) who she barely knows. Amy is pretty miserable for a while, but after some developers had been tearing down the local forest, she finds a nest of orphaned goose eggs, and she is determined to look after them. When they hatch, they obviously see the first person they see, Amy, as "Mother Goose", and with the help of her Dad, they are determined to preserve, parent, and eventually prepare them to migrate. It is when Tom invents a working microlight and small plane that they can really progress with helping them fly, and the most spectacular journey south begins. Also starring Superman - The Animated Series' Dana Delany as Susan Barnes, Terry Kinney as David Alden, Holter Graham as Barry Stickland, Jeremy Ratchford as DNR Officer Glen Seifert, Deborah Verginella as Amy's Mother and Michael J. Reynolds as General. Daniels and young Paquin both give very appealing performances, and the geese are of course the most cute and cuddly, well, feathery and fun, sight to see, a very heartwarming story. It was nominated the Oscar for Best Cinematography. It was number 95 on The 100 Greatest Family Films. Very good!