Ithaca
Ithaca
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.
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Cast
Sam Shepard
as Willie Grogan
Hamish Linklater
as Tom Spangler
Alex Neustaedter
as Homer
Meg Ryan
as Mrs. Macauley
Jack Quaid
as Marcus Macauley
Tom Hanks
as Mr. Macauley
Lucia Scarano
as Rosa Sandoval
Zachary Webber
as Horse
Lois Robbins
as Mrs. Beaufrere
Cait Moira
as Helen Eliot
Gabriel Basso
as Tobey George
Molly Gordon
as Mary Arena
Crew
Erik Jendresen
Producer
Tom Hanks
Executive Producer
Meg Ryan
Director
Jason Cloth
Executive Producer
Gary Goetzman
Executive Producer
William Saroyan
Novel
Aaron L. Gilbert
Executive Producer
Erik Jendresen
Screenplay
Andrew Dunn
Director of Photography
Tiffany Little Canfield
Casting
Bernard Telsey
Casting
John Mellencamp
Original Music Composer