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Summary: A good movie for more than just father-daughters
Review: If you hate family movies that are funny, then this movie (Fly Away Home) is not a comedy. And I don't know if drama is a good word for this movie either. While the kid's mom dies in the opening of the film. But does happens so fast that is just does seem to be much drama. Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin (The Piano) stars is in this movie who teaches baby geese to fly south. Anna's parents were dicorved (I guess) when this movie opens.
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Summary: For dads and daughters
Review: This is an absolutely wonderful movie about an excitingly surreal kind of real-world issue-- that of a father and daughter developing a shared dream of doing something good for nature. It is especially redeeming for the notion of a parent, long separated from his now-teenaged daughter, learning to expect adult-like responsibilities from her and finding that she can meet them as expected. He doesn't baby her-- the aeronautics lessons alone are enough to end that phase of her life. This relationship really makes it a 'role-model' film.Then there is that delightful in-joke about Anna Paquin's nose-ring-- she'd found a FAKE one in a shop whilst filming and wore it onto the set, thinking everyone would make a stink over it... and no one did. They deliberately ignored it, both on the set and in the story line. So the filming proceeded and thus the audience gets let in on her joke... or gets to ignore it; either way it makes her character seem human and natural. This kind of understated, sly cleverness has become a hallmark of Miss Paquin's acting. It's no wonder why she won an Academy Award at age 11-- and delivered an ad-libbed speech for it into the bargain. Stories and characters like this are too good to pass by. (And based on a true story!) See this one with your kids soon.
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Summary: Fly Away Home - a true story
Review: My young grand daughter asked my husband and I to watch this video. We went to the video store; looked all over for it, and found it in the children's section. After a short pause, we went ahead and rented it and we were both so glad we did. Since we saw it, we have been looking for it in the stores, and just found and ordered it here. We just received it and watched it again, and it is one of the most touching and memorable stories we've ever watched. Both of us enjoyed the entire movie, from beginning to end, and now can watch it as many times as we want, which I'm sure will be often. The story is so touching and cute, with a lot of strength, unselfishnes, and love shown on the part of the young girl. It's so cute, you just want to watch it again, and it becomes a topic of conversation when good video's are brought up among friends and family. I highly recommend this movie to children and adults alike and am so grateful to my grand daughter for pushing us to see it.
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Summary: One of my best 100 movies of all time
Review: It is very honest, simple and great directing. All acting even geeses are very honest, cinematography is marvellous, all photographs ( every shot is a very good picture ) and all music wonderful. It is a movie also with great moral about what really matters at the end. I am a movie fan and not the easy one, believe me this movie is one of 100 best movies all the time with others such as Sling Blade, Leolo, Space Odysee 2001, Blade Runner, Shawshank Redemption, Innocence, African Queen, Amarcord ........
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Summary: A Family Movie of a Different Feather
Review: I absolutely loved Fly Away Home. I know some people may think I'm being overly generous by giving this movie a five star rating, but the movie is just so heart-warming and original that it deserves all the praise it can get. This movie is a great family movie. It has elements of childish wistfulness and it incorporates the beauty of nature into a story about courage and love. Also, aside from the general plot, the cinematography is exquisite. The nature scenes look like they've been plucked right out of National Geographic. Also, the underlying theme song about flying away is strikingly emotional. Thumbs up!!!
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Summary: [What] Do You Think Youre Doing Ahh!
Review: I think I love this movie Fly Away Home starring Jeff Daniels & Anna Paquin. This is a video and you fly through the air. In the video a sucurity guard named Glen clipped the birds wings so they couldnt fly.
Then Amy (Anna Paquin) jumps upp and yells, "What are you doing," and she hit him on the head with the popcorn bowl and the popcorn goes all over the floor. Then Amys dad Thomas Alden (Jeff Daniels) grabs the security guard Glen and takes him outside.
The birds were safe with Amy. Then there was fight going on.
Dad yelled, "The Hell Do You Think Youre Doing Ahh!" because he got mad at Glen becuase he shouldnt have clipped the birds.
So Glen said, "What is wrong with you, I was trying to help."
He told Glen to get off his property. This was a great movie about flying and I loved it. This would be cool if I flew to Las, Vegas Nevada, Calgary Alberta, Florida & everywhere in that cool plane they had. I could be heading west. I hope everybody enjoys it.
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Summary: This is one you don't want to miss
Review: In the world of DVD, it is quite fashionable to talk about "must-have" DVDs, mostly because of the disks' technological superiority. But the Special Edition DVD of Fly Away Home is a disk that does genuinely belong in every movie lover's collection. The disk is full of extras and is beautifully rendered, but it is the film itself that makes this DVD a true must-have. Fly Away Home tells the kind of story that could oh-so-easily become sentimental or melodramatic. "Young teenage girl loses her mother in a car accident and goes to live with her estranged father. They learn to connect to each other, and to their own hearts, by teaching a flock of orphaned wild geese to fly." But make no mistake: this film is a first-rate family classic. It's the kind of movie that you cannot stop watching. The acting is honest and understated; the cinematography is superb (just about every single shot in this film could be put up on the wall, that's how beautiful the pictures are); the music is spot-on, moving from romantic to quirky moods with grace and ease; and Carroll Ballard's direction is just perfection, simply because you never notice it: he lets the story tell itself in images, in all its simplicity and beauty -- only at the end do you stop to realize that, oh yes, someone must have directed this film. And then there's the geese, the real stars of the film. Every time you see them take to the sky in this film's gloriously beautiful sequences, following Amy in her flying machine, they tell us the simplest and most profound of thuths: that this world is beautiful, and that we must not let it go to waste. In an age when movies seem to be mostly about machines, explosions and violence, Fly Away Home comes as an eloquent reminder of what really matters: that we take good care of the people that we love, and that we must never lose the courage to dream.
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Summary: Great and breathtaking
Review: This movie was breathtaking. My eyes were glued to the screen the whole time. It is about a girl who finds a nest of goose eggs that have been abandoned by the mother because of the bussiness machines ripping their way through the wildlife filled forest and scaring away anything that lives there. This movie shows a great relationship between her and her adopted goslings. When fall comes there is one problem, the geese have to fly south but there is no one to lead them there, without anyone the geese will get lost and probably die, so the girl and her father build an airplane like machine and she and her airborne babies fly south, supported by the cheers of most people in America hearing the about the great mission on the news, this is a must-have and must-see I'm telling you!!!!
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Summary: A Beatiful Movie
Review: I just love this movie. It is a simple story yet it was done so well, that I'd call this a beautiful movie. Anna Paquin gives a superb performance (think the Piano, not X-Men), and so does Jeff Daniels. Jeff Daniels??? I mean, when I hear Jeff Daniels, I think "Dumb and Dumber". But actually, he gives a very credible performance in this movie as the estranged father. And the cinematography, you just have to see it. Absolutely beautiful. When you get to the last 30 miles of Amy's (Anna's character) last flight, stop munching popcorn for a moment, turn up the volume so that Mary Carpenter's song fills the room, then enjoy this wonderful sequence. You'd have goosebumps (if not tears) watching this young girl flying with the geese, while an emotion-evoking song is sung in the background. It's like magic. It's like, you would just want to get out and buy an ultralight and head for skies. and fly with the geese and birds of all kinds. and live there for the rest of your life. Well, maybe not for the rest of your life, but ... you get the idea. Well back to the movie... I believe this movie will go down as one of the all-time family favorites. Watch this with your kids, and it may get them interested in, and have respect for nature and wildlife (as oppose to living a wild life). Also I'm pretty certain, after watching this movie, a lot of viewers will find themselves high in up in the skies, dreaming of flight... ... and oh yeah, get the special edition. It has the widescreen version (to enjoy the full benefits of the cinematography). Plus you get a special feature about the true experiments that were the inspiration for this movie.
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Summary: Teaching Orphaned Geese to Fly
Review: Charming, wholesome movie with powerful acting by likable characters. Without being overly sentimental, shows how parent and child can reconcile differences. Inspiring insights into flight, migration, death and self-strength. Ages 12-18.
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