Fly Away Home (DVD)

A heartwarming story for all age groups. Good, clean dialogue. It would be hard to find anyone who didn't like this film.
STORY of a young girl of separated parents, whose mother tragically dies in a car crash and she goes back to live with father in a large, isolated farmstead. He is an eccentric designer/engineer of many 'contraptions' including gliders. Busy with his work, the girl wanders the fields/woods and discovers a clutch of eggs under a broken tree branch. Taking them home, she finds a way to keep them warm . . . and they hatch. As she is the first thing they see, 'imprinting' of her being their mother occurs. Humourous scenes of twenty goslings in the house and the strong bond between her and the goslings is quite wonderful. Geese fly south to feed and survive the harsh snowbound winter.. by following their mother in the first year, and remembering themselves in future years ..... so how to get them to go south? A plan is devised, involving adapted microlites - one of which the girl flies - and her geese follow - to a destination, which, if no birds arrive by a certain time will no longer be a protected bird sancturary . . . but a cleared building site. Thwarted by theft of the geese, mechanical trouble, other geese flocks travelling, hardly any time . . . and Igor . . . who can't fly on his own . .. not to mention military air base alerts. As the news of her exploit travels, the nation is willing them all on ... but does she make it with them in time? Well now, that would spoil the ending .. . unless you know Igor!