Ithaca

Ithaca

96 mins | Drama | Oct. 29, 2015

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.

Ithaca

96 mins | Drama | Oct. 29, 2015

Ithaca
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.
IMDb rating 5.5
Producers Bron Studios, Pilothouse Pictures, Apple Lane Productions
Original title Ithaca
Directors Meg Ryan
Writers William Saroyan, Erik Jendresen

Cast

Sam Shepard

as Willie Grogan

Hamish Linklater

as Tom Spangler

Alex Neustaedter

as Homer

Meg Ryan

as Mrs. Macauley

Jack Quaid

as Marcus Macauley

Tom Hanks

as Mr. Macauley

Nick Williams

as Texas

Christine Nelson

as Bess Macauley

Lucia Scarano

as Rosa Sandoval

Zachary Webber

as Horse

Trey Hines

as Harry

Lois Robbins

as Mrs. Beaufrere

Bridget Gethins

as Dolly Hawthorn

James McCool

as Lionel

Spencer Howell

as Ulysses Macauley

Caitlin Moira

as Helen Eliot

Gabriel Basso

as Tobey George

Molly Gordon

as Mary Arena

Samantha Smedley

as Girl at Bus Stop