Fly Away Home (1996)
In “Fly Away Home,” Amy Alden’s mother and father divorced when she was three. Her father, Tom, was an inventor, a dreamer, and her mother couldn’t see a future for herself and her daughter with a man who was willing to give up everything he had to build a model of the Lunar Lander. Amy (Anna Paquin) grew up with her mother in New Zealand, far away from the Canadian home where she was born. The year Amy turned thirteen, something horrible happened. While on a drive with her mother, a storm kicked up, and her mother had to swerve … Continue reading