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Fly Away Home is a american film of genre Drama directed by Carroll Ballard released in USA on 13 september 1996 with Jeff Daniels

Fly Away Home (1996)

Fly Away Home
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Released in USA 13 september 1996
Length 1h47
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy-drama,    Action,    Adventure
Rating68% 3.4497053.4497053.4497053.4497053.449705

Fly Away Home (aka Flying Wild and Flying Wild, Father Goose) is a 1996 family 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,/October 5 2001 by Columbia Pictures.

Fly Away Home dramatizes the actual experiences of Bill Lishman who, in 1986, started training geese to follow his ultralight and succeeded in leading their migration in 1993.

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After her mother dies in a car accident, 13-year-old Amy Alden (Anna Paquin) is brought from New Zealand to Ontario, Canada, by her estranged father Thomas Alden (Jeff Daniels), a sculptor and inventor, to live with him and his girlfriend Susan (Dana Delaney).

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