Fly Away Home

This is the story of an young girl who helps the geese to fly and guiding them to their natural habitat.Amy Alden after losing his mother in an accident in New Zealand moves to Ontario to live with her father.Her father Thomas Alden  is an inventor, he introduces his girlfriend ,Susan, to Amy who initially avoid and hate her but latter she grow fond of her.

When the forest was cleared for construction Amy found eggs left by some birds,he brings it to her father's barn and keep it in dresser,when she returns from school she found all the eggs hatched and she is very happy and request her father to keep it ,reluctantly he agrees.

Thomas asks help from the local warden to take care of the birds but when the warden visits his house he says all domestic geese should be clipped and tries to clip a bird.Amy is furious and pushes the warden out,Thomas too warn the warden not to touch the bird anymore and ask him to leave.


The geese follows Amy wherever she goes but they are not flying as they do not know how to fly but to protect them Amy and others should make they fly otherwise the local warden will take them.Thomas being inventor tries to create a homemade aircraft and makes the birds to follow him but the birds never followed him.So they decides Amy should teach them to fly i.e flap their wings and once the birds do that ,Thomas can make the birds to follow the aircraft.

Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin

After making the birds to flap the wings and run , they decides to try with aircraft but unfortunately the birds did not follow Thomas but they followed Amy who is running at the side.Now the only option left is Amy should fly with Thomas in the aircraft so that the birds will follow.But Susan disagrees and he asks Thomas to shelve the idea.since they do not have any other option Thomas and his friends trains Amy to to sit with Thomas and fly. Unfortunately the birds does not follows them,so they decides to allow Amy to fly alone in a aircraft.Thomas teaches her to fly the aircraft.The rest of the story tells how Amy,Thomas and friends made the geese to fly.

Incredible story and it is very inspiring to know that this movie is based on the real life story.The whole film was shot beautifully.All the characters had played their part to perfection including the geese.Anna Paquin as Amy was amazing ,perfect fit.Jeff Daniels as Thomas was also good.Music by Mark Isham was awesome.

Overall a great movie to watch with family and friends..!!