this delightful movie was inspired by a true story, with many of the details changed. It serves up thrills and adventure along with subtle messages about family ties and independence. thirteen-year-old Amy Alden (Anna Paquin), living in Ontario with her father and grieving the recent death of her mother, finds and adopts a flock of orphaned Canadian geese. she sets out to teach them survival skills. she feeds them, sleeps in a bathtub full of pillows next to their spot in the bathroom at night, and talks to them in geese-like noises. the geese follow her as if she were their mother. geese maintain very close relationships with their parents, according to this film, and when they are old enough to fly south for the winter, if the parents don't lead them on the migration and teach them the route, they will not know where to go or what to do. Amy, now age 14, and her inventor dad (Jeff Daniels) take to the skies in two homemade ultralight aircraft that he built to help the gaggle migrate 500 miles to freedom at a marshland nature reserve in North Carolina . Amy leads the flight, since the geese see her as their mother, with her dad flying behind her in his ultralight aircraft, with their support team on the ground, all keeping in touch. it becomes a media and political event before they finally touch down at the nature preserve. (1996). available on NetFlix, etc.
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