“Fly Away Home”: The outlines of this 1996 film,
with Anna Paquin and Jeff Daniels, suggest a
familiar and schmaltzy kind of family movie,
but it’s handled with such grace that it rises
above the ordinary. Also, the geese are really
great. A 13-year-old (Paquin) moves in with
her estranged father (Daniels) in rural Canada
after the death of her mother. She adopts
an abandoned nest of goose eggs, raises
them and teaches them to fly South for the
winter. Available to stream on the Criterion
Channel. The director, Carol Ballard, and the
cinematographer, Caleb Deschanel, also crafted
a movie of pastoral beauty and sweet child-
animal camaraderie in 1979’s “Black Stallion,”
which is streaming on Amazon Prime.
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