Ithaca
movie
One message will change everything.
Released October 29, 2015
Genres:
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.
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
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Nick Williams
as
Texas
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Christine Nelson
as
Bess Macauley
Lucia Scarano
as
Rosa Sandoval
Zachary Webber
as
Horse
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Trey Hines
as
Harry
Lois Robbins
as
Mrs. Beaufrere
Crew
Meg Ryan
as
Director
Erik Jendresen
as
Screenplay
William Saroyan
as
Novel
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Janet Brenner
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Producer
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Laura Ivey
as
Producer
Erik Jendresen
as
Producer
Jason Cloth
as
Executive Producer
Aaron L. Gilbert
as
Executive Producer
Gary Goetzman
as
Executive Producer
Tom Hanks
as
Executive Producer
Andrew Dunn
as
Director of Photography
Tiffany Little Canfield
as
Casting