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Summary: why not widescreen?
Review: I have seen this film many times and will watch it many more. A very well acted, and beautifully shot movie with great music and yet, I bought the laser disc version. I'm sorry but this DVD needs to be released in a widescreen format to get the full effect of this wonderful movie.
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Summary: awesome!
Review: I love this movie!Its an entertaining movie and it makes me cry everytime.I think its worth buying and you wont be dissapointed!
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Summary: Absolutley Heartwarming
Review: Beautiful movie, I can watch this one over and over. It moves me to tears each time. Full of emotion. It will touch your heart. Beautiful scenery and music! This one is worth buying. A good wholesome family movie.
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Summary: Fly Me to the Moon
Review: Poet Seamus Heaney once wrote about the "Death of a Naturalist," but in Fly Away Home the spirit of the hippy-dippy tree-hugger is resurrected. And that's a good thing! An achingly beautiful ode to flight (metaphorical and literal) and family, the story is simple enough. Amy Alden (Anna Paquin) loses her mom in a car crash on a rain-slick New Zealand road. Estranged dad Thomas (Jeff Daniels) drags the kid back to Canada where his sculptures and off-kilter experiments with flying don't exactly endear Amy to her pop. It's not until she rescues a gaggle of goose eggs, raises the chicks, and becomes their humanoid mommy that the pair of lost souls can find a way to reconnect and lead the geese south for the winter. Once you get a load of Caleb Deschanel's phenomenal cinematography the visual poem will be complete. For Fly Away Home sends a graceful air-gram through the skies with the greatest of ease.
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Summary: Lovely music but no widescreen?
Review: A nice film with a beautiful soubdtrack by Mark Isham. I wanted the DVD to have a CD quality copy of the audio (Sony never released the soundtrack). But no widescreen? Come on...
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Summary: Magical film for children AND adults.
Review: I wanted to buy this movie as soon as I got my DVD player; but alas, I have to pass because someone decided not to put it in letterbox? Why O why O why? This film deserves to be seen in widescreen. I'll stick with the VHS version and save my money until a letterbox version comes along.
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Summary: Very good, but marred by a few "wrong messages"
Review: This film tells of a wonderful story, and it is beautifully filmed. I enjoyed it very much, but wished that a brief scene or two had been reconsidered by the director. In particular, I did not like it when the game warden was about to clip a wing of a gosling, and the daughter just goes "ballistic," bonking him on the head with a pot or some such object, then screaming bloody murder. How does her father respond? He roughs the guy up ,then throws him out of the house. Later in the film, we are given a scene that intentionally paints the U.S. airforce as "over-reacting" to the imagined "threat" of the father and daughter flying the geese home. Seems the father over-reacted, too. Hope parents take the time to tell their kids that, no matter how "in the right" you may feel about something, you don't get violent to make your points.
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Summary: Three generations loved this film
Review: Last time my 5 and 4 year old grandaughters visited, we rented Fly Away Home. We were all completely enthralled with it and watched it 3 times. When their mom and dad came to pick them up, we ALL watched it together. I was surprised at how well the girls handled the early scenes of the fatal car wreck. Fortunately, this is done under the opening credits, is over quickly, and is handled as tastefully as possible. From then on, the movie soars. A beautiful movie about the redeeming value of love and caring - the motherless girl and the motherless geese flying together. The music and photography are also splendid.
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Summary: One of my favorites
Review: This highly ranks as one of my favorite movies which you can watch over and over again and not get bored with...replay value. BUT... I am giving it three stars only because I am not about to shell out that amount of money for a DVD version with no "real" difference from the VHS, namely, no widescreen! And the extras are soooo meager. This is very very disappointing...I don't have a 16:9 set yet, but I always get widescreen VHS (when available) to begin with as I much prefer them that way...
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Summary: I thought it was really neat.
Review: (This review is by my 5 year old grandson. He and my 3 year old granddaughter wanted to watch the video both days they visited.)
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