Review of Fly Away Home (1996) by Lisa Schwarzbaum for Entertainment Weekly — 19 Jul 2002
Ballard, working from a screenplay by Robert Rodat and Vince McKewin, lets the melancholy hang in the air with a few too many poetic shots of the lonely girl. But as Thomas teaches Amy how to spread her wings, any lacy sentimentality (as well as the jarring tree-hugger subplot about meanie land developers) falls away, revealing the soaring beauty of the flying sequences.
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This review of Fly Away Home (1996) was written by Lisa Schwarzbaum and published by Entertainment Weekly on 19 Jul 2002.
Fly Away Home has generally received positive reviews.
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