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Ithaca

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Original title

Ithaca

Year

2015

Running time

96 min.

Country

United States

Director

Meg Ryan

Screenwriter

Erik Jendresen. Novel: William Saroyan

Cast

Music

John Mellencamp

Cinematography

Andrew Dunn

Producer

Apple Lane Productions, Playtone

Genre

Drama | II World War. 1940s. Teen/coming-of-age. Independent Film (US)

Synopsis

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 telegrams that begin with “The Department of War regrets...”. And one day Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever...

Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the abruptness of change, the sweetness of life, the sting of death, and the sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.

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Ithaca

2015

Meg Ryan

4.5

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