Ithaca (2015)
One message will change everything.
96 min
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.
- Release date
- October 29, 2015
- Country of origin
- United States
- Budget
- $5,000,000
Trailer
Cast
- Alex Neustaedter as Homer Macauley
- Meg Ryan as Mrs. Macauley
- Sam Shepard as Willie Grogan
- Hamish Linklater as Tom Spangler
- Jack Quaid as Marcus Macauley
- Tom Hanks as Matthew Macauley
- Spencer Howell as Ulysses Macauley
- Christine Nelson as Bess Macauley
- Gabriel Basso as Tobey George
- Lois Robbins as Mrs. Beaufrere
Crew
- Meg Ryan · Director
- Erik Jendresen · Writer
- William Saroyan · Writer
- Janet Brenner · Producer
- Laura Ivey · Producer
- Erik Jendresen · Producer
- John Mellencamp · Composer
- Andrew Dunn · Cinematographer
- John F. Lyons · Editor
- Tiffany Little Canfield · Casting director
- Bernard Telsey · Casting director
- Stephanie Carroll · Production designer