Ithaca
One message will change everything.
- Drama
Overview
In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-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. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever - from a boy into a man. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is the quintessential wartime tale of the Home Front. It is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the sweetness of life, the sting of death and the modesty and sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.
Keywords
- based on novel or book
- woman director
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 29, 2015
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Cast
- Sam Shepard,Hamish Linklater,Alex Neustaedter,Meg Ryan,Jack Quaid,Tom Hanks,Nick Williams,Christine Nelson,Lucia Scarano,Zachary Webberand 9 more
- Director
- Meg Ryan
- Producer
- Janet Brenner,Laura Ivey,Erik Jendresen,Jason Cloth,Aaron L. Gilbert,Gary Goetzman,Tom Hanks
- Cinematography
- Andrew Dunn
- Music
- John Mellencamp
- Budget
- $5,000,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt3501590