Ithaca
2015 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain... and death... to the good people of Ithaca. But basically Homer delivers telegrams that begin with “The Department of War regrets...”. And one day Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever... Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the abruptness of change, the sweetness of life, the sting of death, and the sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.
Direction Meg Ryan
Cast Alex Neustaedter · Meg Ryan · Sam Shepard · Tom Hanks · Jack Quaid · Emily Marie Palmer · Christine Nelson · Nick Williams · Zachary Webber · Bridget Gethins · José Luis Muñoz · Spencer Howell
Soundtrack John Mellencamp
Screenplay Erik Jendresen · William Saroyan
Cinematography Andrew Dunn
Original title Ithaca
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