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Ithaca

53 %|Oct 29, 2015|Drama

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.

Featured Crew

Meg Ryan
Director
Erik Jendresen
Screenplay
William Saroyan
Novel
Janet Brenner
Producer
Laura Ivey
Producer
Erik Jendresen
Producer
Jason Cloth
Executive Producer
Aaron L. Gilbert
Executive Producer

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Cast

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Sam Shepard
Willie Grogan
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Hamish Linklater
Tom Spangler
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Meg Ryan
Mrs. Macauley
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Jack Quaid
Marcus Macauley
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Tom Hanks
Mr. Macauley
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Christine Nelson
Bess Macauley
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Lucia Scarano
Rosa Sandoval
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Lois Robbins
Mrs. Beaufrere
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Bridget Gethins
Dolly Hawthorn
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Spencer Howell
Ulysses Macauley
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Caitlin Moira
Helen Eliot
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Gabriel Basso
Tobey George
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Molly Gordon
Mary Arena
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Samantha Smedley
Girl at Bus Stop