Movie

Ithaca

“One message will change everything.”

★ 5.3(103)20151h 36m

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Director: Meg Ryan
Release date: 2015-10-29
Runtime: 1h 36m
Language: English
Budget: $5,000,000
Status: Released
Country: United States of America
Studio: Pilothouse Pictures

Ithaca — trailer

About Ithaca

Ithaca is a 2015 movie in the Drama genre, directed by Meg Ryan, starring Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater and Alex Neustaedter. It has a runtime of 1 hour 36 minutes. It holds an average rating of 5.3/10 from 103 viewers. Below you can see where to watch Ithaca in Canada — across streaming, rental and purchase options — along with the full cast, trailer and viewer reviews.

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.