Jeff Daniels credited as playing...
Thomas Alden
- 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.
- 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?
- [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?