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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.
Language
Budget$5,000,000
Revenue --
English
Budget$5,000,000
Revenue --
Keywords
based on novel or book
woman director
Casts

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
Bridget Gethins
Dolly Hawthorn
James McCool
Lionel
Spencer Howell
Ulysses Macauley

Cait Moira
Helen Eliot

Gabriel Basso
Tobey George

Molly Gordon
Mary Arena
Samantha Smedley
Girl at Bus Stop
Crews

Meg Ryan
Director

Erik Jendresen
Screenplay

William Saroyan
Novel
Janet Brenner
Producer
Laura Ivey
Producer

Erik Jendresen
Producer

Jason Cloth
Executive Producer

Aaron L. Gilbert
Executive Producer

Gary Goetzman
Executive Producer

Tom Hanks
Executive Producer
Andrew Dunn
Director of Photography

Tiffany Little Canfield
Casting

Bernard Telsey
Casting
Alice Baker
Set Decoration
Richard Blankenship
Art Direction
Stephanie Carroll
Production Design
Amelia 'Amy' Andrews
Costume Design
Larry Rapaport
Unit Production Manager
Rhonda Bareford
Key Makeup Artist
Ashley Fetterman
Makeup Department Head
Katie Middleton
Makeup Artist
Nicole Tucker
Key Hair Stylist
Cynthia Vanis
Hair Department Head
Nakoya Yancey
Assistant Hairstylist
Urs Hirschbiegel
First Assistant Director
Marlee Kamis
Second Second Assistant Director
James Nimmers
Second Assistant Director
Caroline Stephenson
Second Assistant Director

John Mellencamp
Original Music Composer
John F. Lyons
Editor
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