Fly Away Home

Fly Away Home is a 1996 American-Canadian family adventure drama film that tells a story of 16 orphaned Canada geese who are taken in by Amy Alden and her inventor father, Thomas Alden. With the geese grown up, the Aldens lead a migration down the continent.

Directed by Carroll Ballard; Written by Robert Rodat and Vince McKewin; Produced by Carol Baum; Based on the book "Father Goose: One Man, a Gaggle of Geese, and Their Real Life Incredible Journey South" by Bill Lishman
A family of orphaned geese who lost their way. A 14-year-old kid who will lead them home.

Thomas Alden

  • [running out of the house in his underwear as construction workers are wrecking a nearby marsh] GET OUT OF HERE!!! What do you think you're doing?! Hey! What do you think you're doing, huh?! Hey! You don't have a permit! We haven't had the meeting yet! We haven't voted! You're totally illegal! [sighs in frustration and lets out a furious scream] I'm gonna get a lawyer and sue your ass!
  • By destroying the marsh, they've broken the law and accomplished their objective which is, there's nothing left to save. I mean, it's a done deal. And it's an outrage! There are laws against this kind of thing, and I, for one, want to know who amongst you is going to enforce them?
  • Amy? Amy, I'm sorry. I didn't know he was going to do that. Look, sweetie, I promise I won't let anybody hurt them, all right? Open the door.

Amy Alden

  • Dad, look! They're really flying with me!
  • Hello, Papa Goose! This is so cool!
  • [screaming in the shower after a lotion malfunction] GET OOOUUUUTT!!! Get out!! GET OUT!!!

Dialogue

[Amy is resting in the hospital bed with her father sleeping beside her]
Thomas Alden: Amy? It's Dad.
Amy Alden: Dad? Why are you here?
Thomas Alden: I came down from Canada. I've come to take you home.
Amy Alden: What do you mean?
Thomas Alden: Well, I mean...
Amy Alden: Where's Mum? Tell me, Mum died, didn't she?
Amy Alden: Excuse me, sir, please leave him alone.
Glen Seifert: Your name's Amy, isn't it? Well, Amy, these geese belong to the Crown.
Amy Alden: What crown?
Glen Seifert: That's the Queen of England.
Thomas Alden: Pinioning?
Susan Barnes: I have no idea.
Glen Seifert: She made rules for us to follow. It's for the good of the goose, it's for the good of the people. Now what you do is you take the wing and you just shave a bit off the cuticle here-- [prepares to cut the tip off Igor's wing with a fingernail clipper]
Amy Alden: [utterly enraged] WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! [shoots up from her chair and hits Seifert on the head repeatedly with a bowl of popcorn] STOP IT!! STOP IT!! STOP IT!! STOP IT!!
Thomas Alden: [indignantly grabs Seifert and hauls him to the door] What the hell are you doing?! [Susan grabs Igor from Seifert's hand while Amy takes the flock in the bathroom]
Susan Barnes: Watch out!
Glen Seifert: Jeez! What are you doing?!
Thomas Alden: [throws Seifert down the stairs] What the hell do you think you're doing, huh?!
Glen Seifert: What is wrong with you? I'm trying to help! What happens when your birds start to fly? What happens in two months when they start to migrate? They're gonna end up zapped in power lines or dead on the highway, except--
Thomas Alden: [shoves Seifert by force] GET OFF MY LAND!!
Glen Seifert: LISTEN TO ME!! Your birds could be carrying parasites and disease! If they infect while they want--
Thomas Alden: STAY OFF OF MY PLACE!!!
Glen Seifert: Your birds are gonna get clipped, no matter what! If your birds fly, I'm gonna have to confiscate them!
Susan Barnes: It's all right.
Amy Alden: [sobbing] This house is full of contraptions!
Susan Barnes: I know. You're right.
Amy Alden: HE'S SO WEIRD!
Susan Barnes: You're right. He is.
Amy Alden: I miss my friends and my room! Who was that guy?
Susan Barnes: Oh, he's just a guy, and he didn't see you.
Amy Alden: He did too!
Susan Barnes: No, he didn't.
Amy Alden: He did!
Susan Barnes: No.
Amy Alden: And why did he bring that other guy here to chop their wings off?!
Susan Barnes: Your father didn't know. Nobody knew he was going to do that.
Amy Alden: He did too, and he's coming back!
Susan Barnes: No, he isn't.
Amy Alden: HE SAID HE WAS!! NO!! NO!!
Susan Barnes: Amy! Amy| Amy, listen to me. I know I can never replace your mother. No one can. But if you let me, I can be your friend. And the first rule about friends is they have to trust each other, right? I promise you, nothing is going to happen to those geese. I won't let it and neither will your dad.
Amy Alden: Mama to Papa. That was so cool!
Thomas Alden: Yeah, great. I just made a criminal out of my own daughter. Now we'll both do time behind bars.
Amy Alden: Dad, stop being so dramatic.
Thomas Alden: Now, look, this is just the beginning, Amy. We've got to make 120 nautical miles by sundown, fly across Lake Ontario, cross an international boundary without a permit carrying stolen goods, without filing a flight plan, without any official approval, four days behind schedule. We're on the edge, my dear.

Cast

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