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Ithaca (2015) [PG]

Release Date:
October 29, 2015

Original Title:
Ithaca

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
Apple Lane Productions
Bron Studios
Pilothouse Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
US: PG 

Runtime: 96

One message will change everything.

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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.

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Production

Art Direction:
Richard Blankenship

Assistant Hairstylist:
Nakoya Yancey

Casting:
Tiffany Little Canfield
Bernard Telsey

Costume Design:
Amelia 'Amy' Andrews

Director:
Meg Ryan

Director of Photography:
Andrew Dunn

Editor:
John F. Lyons

Executive Producer:
Tom Hanks
Jason Cloth
Gary Goetzman
Aaron L. Gilbert

First Assistant Director:
Urs Hirschbiegel

Hair Department Head:
Cynthia Vanis

Key Hair Stylist:
Nicole Tucker

Key Makeup Artist:
Rhonda Bareford

Makeup Artist:
Katie Middleton

Makeup Department Head:
Ashley Fetterman

Novel:
William Saroyan

Original Music Composer:
John Mellencamp

Producer:
Erik Jendresen
Janet Brenner
Laura Ivey

Production Design:
Stephanie Carroll

Screenplay:
Erik Jendresen

Second Assistant Director:
James Nimmers
Caroline Stephenson

Second Second Assistant Director:
Marlee Kamis

Set Decoration:
Alice Baker

Unit Production Manager:
Larry Rapaport

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