Fly Away Home (1996)

Jeff Daniels: Thomas Alden

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Quotes 

• Amy Alden : Mama to Papa. That was so cool!

  Thomas Alden : Yeah, great. I just made a criminal out of my own daughter. Now we'll both do time behind bars.

  Amy Alden : Dad, stop being so dramatic.

  Thomas Alden : Now, look, this is just the beginning, Amy. We've got to make 120 nautical miles by sundown, fly across Lake Ontario, cross an international boundary without a permit carrying stolen goods, without filing a flight plan, without any official approval, four days behind schedule. We're on the edge, my dear.

• [watching Amy lead the geese around] 

  Thomas Alden : It's amazing, isn't it, how they, uh, follow her around like that?

  DNR Officer : Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's, uh, called imprinting. The first living thing a goose sees when it's born, it automatically assume is its mother.

  Thomas Alden : Huh.

  DNR Officer : They'll follow her anywhere.

• David Alden : With this baby you could fly over the Empire State Building.

  Thomas Alden : Or end up as a big pound of ground round. One of the two.

• [first lines] 

  Thomas Alden : Amy? It's your dad.

  Amy Alden : Dad?

  Thomas Alden : I came down from Canada. I've come to take you home.

  Amy Alden : Where's Mom?

  Thomas Alden : Um...

  Amy Alden : Mum died, didn't she?

• Susan Barnes : [about the plan to fly south with the geese]  This will never work!

  Thomas Alden : [confused]  But I thought you liked the geese.

  Susan Barnes : [shouts]  I *DO* LIKE THE GEESE!

• Amy Alden : [the ranger picks up Igor, one of Amy's goslings]  Excuse me, sir, please leave him alone.

  DNR Officer : Your name's Amy, isn't it? Well Amy, these geese belong to the crown.

  Amy Alden : What crown?

  DNR Officer : That's the Queen of England.

  Thomas Alden : Pinioning?

  Susan Barnes : I have no idea.

  DNR Officer : She made rules. It's for the good of the goose, it's for the good of the people. Now what you do is you take the wing and you just shave a bit off the cuticle here--

  [prepares to cut the tip off Igor's wing with a fingernail clipper] 

  Amy Alden : [utterly enraged]  WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

  [shoots up from her chair and hits the ranger on the head with a bowl of popcorn] 

  Amy Alden : STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT! STOP IT!

  Thomas Alden : [indignantly grabs the ranger and hauls him to the door]  What the hell are you doing?

• Thomas Alden : GET OFF OF MY LAND!

• Thomas Alden : Knock them off!

  Hunter : Holy shit!