This is a really nice fictional story about a young Australian boy in the 1950s
finding three new Pelican hatchlings on the shore after some hunters had killed a number of birds. He took them home and in spite of his dad's thought that they would die overnight, they in fact survived and grew to adulthood, fed hacked up fish. It immediately reminded me of the 1996 "Fly Away Home" where the girl finds Canadian geese eggs, hatches them, and raises the geese.
The other half of the story is in modern times, the boy as an older man retired from his company but still on the board, being encouraged by his 17-yr-old granddaughter to prevent a project that would threaten natural habitats. His experiences with the Pelicans all those years earlier will be an influence.
Good movie, speaks to friendship, family values, and trying to do the right thing. I found it on Kanopy streaming movies via my public library's subscription. My wife skipped.
The other half of the story is in modern times, the boy as an older man retired from his company but still on the board, being encouraged by his 17-yr-old granddaughter to prevent a project that would threaten natural habitats. His experiences with the Pelicans all those years earlier will be an influence.
Good movie, speaks to friendship, family values, and trying to do the right thing. I found it on Kanopy streaming movies via my public library's subscription. My wife skipped.