Ithaca

Ithaca by Meg Ryan

5.30

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

Sam Shepard as Willie Grogan

Hamish Linklater

Hamish Linklater as Tom Spangler

Alex Neustaedter

Alex Neustaedter as Homer

Meg Ryan

Meg Ryan as Mrs. Macauley

Jack Quaid

Jack Quaid as Marcus Macauley

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks as Mr. Macauley

Nick Williams

Nick Williams as Texas

Christine Nelson

Christine Nelson as Bess Macauley

Lucia Scarano

Lucia Scarano as Rosa Sandoval

Zachary Webber

Zachary Webber as Horse

Trey Hines

Trey Hines as Harry

Lois Robbins

Lois Robbins as Mrs. Beaufrere

Bridget Gethins

Bridget Gethins as Dolly Hawthorn

James McCool

James McCool as Lionel

Spencer Howell

Spencer Howell as Ulysses Macauley

Cait Moira

Cait Moira as Helen Eliot

Gabriel Basso

Gabriel Basso as Tobey George

Molly Gordon

Molly Gordon as Mary Arena

Samantha Smedley

Samantha Smedley as Girl at Bus Stop

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