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Ithaca 2015 Directed by Meg Ryan

One message will change everything.

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.

Country USA
Production Country USA
Language English
Spoken Language English
Budget $5,000,000
Release Date 29 October 2015
96 mins
Cast
Sam Shepard Willie Grogan
Hamish Linklater Tom Spangler
Meg Ryan Mrs. Macauley
Jack Quaid Marcus Macauley
Tom Hanks Mr. Macauley
Christine Nelson Bess Macauley
Lucia Scarano Rosa Sandoval
Lois Robbins Mrs. Beaufrere
Bridget Gethins Dolly Hawthorn
Spencer Howell Ulysses Macauley
Cait Moira Helen Eliot
Gabriel Basso Tobey George
Molly Gordon Mary Arena
Samantha Smedley Girl at Bus Stop