B and I really liked this Carrol Ballard directed story of a 14-yo girl, (Anna Paquin) who goes to live with her dad. (Jeff Daniels) in Canada after the death of her mom. Distraught, she adopts a clutch of goose eggs, hatches them, raises them, and then leads them to North Carolina and sanctuary, teaching them to be geese. This is a fictional tale, but it’s based on an artist who did this and continues to do it, having moved on to help rescue the Whopping Crane from extinction by working to build new flocks and make them autonomous in the wild. The features attached to the DVD are first rate about his story and this process and are very worth watching. Our daughter, b, was less taken with the film, going on about how ugly the geese are even while she really was caught up in the story and rooted for a ‘happy ending’. Attitude dies hard