Ithaca

Story

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.

Director

Meg Ryan

Writers

Erik Jendresen, William Saroyan

Language

English

Country

United States of America

Release date

29 October 2015

Budget

$5,000,000

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Sam Shepard

  Willie Grogan

• 

  Hamish Linklater

  Tom Spangler

• 

  Alex Neustaedter

  Homer

• 

  Meg Ryan

  Mrs. Macauley

• 

  Jack Quaid

  Marcus Macauley

• 

  Tom Hanks

  Mr. Macauley

• Nick Williams

  Texas

• Christine Nelson

  Bess Macauley

• 

  Lucia Scarano

  Rosa Sandoval

• 

  Zachary Webber

  Horse

• Trey Hines

  Harry

• 

  Lois Robbins

  Mrs. Beaufrere