Ithaca

Synopsis

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.

Main Cast

Sam Shepard

Willie Grogan

Age : 73 | Popularity : 9%

Hamish Linklater

Tom Spangler

Age : 47 | Popularity : 11%

Alex Neustaedter

Homer

Age : 26 | Popularity : 10%

Meg Ryan

Mrs. Macauley

Age : 62 | Popularity : 33%

Jack Quaid

Marcus Macauley

Age : 32 | Popularity : 47%

Tom Hanks

Mr. Macauley

Age : 67 | Popularity : 100%

Nick Williams

Texas

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Christine Nelson

Bess Macauley

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Executive Producer	Tom Hanks Gary Goetzman Aaron L. Gilbert Jason Cloth
	Producer	Erik Jendresen Laura Ivey Janet Brenner
Directing	Director	Meg Ryan
Camera	Director of Photography	Andrew Dunn
Writing	Screenplay	Erik Jendresen
	Novel	William Saroyan
Editing	Editor	John F. Lyons
Sound	Original Music Composer	John Mellencamp
Department	Role	Name

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