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Ithaca

2015

Meg Ryan

Alex Neustaedter, Meg Ryan, Sam Shepard, Tom Hanks ...

4.5

553

Drama Fourteen-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. But basically Homer delivers ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Duane Byrge The Hollywood Reporter	"A heartfelt yet sodden directorial debut by Meg Ryan, 'Ithaca' is wordy and static"	NEU
United States	Neil Genzlinger The New York Times	"Ryan’s muted approach may be what we’ve come to expect of looks back at this period (...) But she executes the formula well."	POS
United States	Devan Coggan Entertainment Weekly	"Hanks’ casting feels like a missed opportunity—much like the rest of 'Ithaca' (...) It doesn’t take much to figure out how this is going to play out"	NEG
United States	Joe Leydon Variety	"By turns poignant and plodding, affecting and affected, 'Ithaca' is the sort of frustrating movie that’s just good enough to make you wish it were a lot better."	NEU
United States	Claudia Puig The Wrap	"[It] lacks depth and sincerity (...) Very little about the turgid drama 'Ithaca' feels believably, genuinely human."	NEG

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