Like the same director's The Black Stallion, a beautifully photographed film about young people connecting with nature; here a disaffected teenager and her relationship with fifteen wild geese she has rescued. Prompts many cries of "How did they do that??"
The film is broadly based on the autobiography of Bill Lishman 'Father Goose', a sculptor and inventor who pioneered ultra light aviation and actually did lead a flight of geese with an aircraft. Most of the geese stuff in this film is real, managed by Bill and his son Geordie (obviously the flight through Baltimore is CGI). Ballard seems like a no nonsense character, see Bobbie Wygant interview: "How did you get the geese to interact with the humans." Ballard: "Shot a ton of film. Some of it worked, some didn't". Reminds me of a John Ford interview.
Never Cry Wolf (1983) also looks good, Duma (2005) is about a boy and his cheetah.
Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin are both on fine form as the sculptor / aviator and his daughter. With Dana Delany, Terry Kinney, Holter Graham. Photographed by Caleb Deschanel in Canada, edited by Nicholas Smith, screenplay by Robert Rodat (Saving Private Ryan) and Vince McEwin.
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