Ithaca (2015)

Ithaca (2015)

One message will change everything. 2015-10-29 United States of America 96 Min. PG-13
5.3 95 votes

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 is Willie Grogan
Willie Grogan
Hamish Linklater is Tom Spangler
Tom Spangler
Meg Ryan is Mrs. Macauley
Mrs. Macauley
Jack Quaid is Marcus Macauley
Marcus Macauley
Tom Hanks is Mr. Macauley
Mr. Macauley
Christine Nelson is Bess Macauley
Bess Macauley
Lucia Scarano is Rosa Sandoval
Rosa Sandoval
Trey Hines is Harry
Lois Robbins is Mrs. Beaufrere
Mrs. Beaufrere