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Released
1996 · FILM

Fly Away Home

A determined teen discovers abandoned goslings and must rally her estranged inventor father to lead the flock on a daring migration before winter freezes them out.

“To achieve the incredible, you have to attempt the impossible.”

Directed by
Carroll Ballard
Written by
Bill Lishman, Robert Rodat
Runtime
107 min
AdventureDramaFamily

Synopsis

At age thirteen, Amy's mother is killed, prompting her move to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor she scarcely knows. Unhappy in her new circumstances, Amy discovers a nest of abandoned goose eggs left after a nearby forest was cleared. The eggs hatch, and Amy assumes the role of caretaker, referred to as "Mama Goose." As winter approaches, Amy and her father must devise a method to guide the geese on their southward migration.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 24

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Nicholas A SmithShot by Caleb DeschanelScored by Mark IshamDesigned by Seamus Flannery

Box Office

1996 · Box office

⚖️ Fell short of break-even — grossed 1.1× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$25.1M

Budget$22.0M
Worldwide gross$25.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $4.7M — 19% of its US run.

Opening week (7-day): $5.7M — 23% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,320 theaters

Also known as

  • Amy und die Wildgänsede
  • L'Envolée sauvagefr
  • L'incredibile voloit

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