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Ithaca

  • 20152015
  • PGPG
  • 1h 36m
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Meg Ryan, Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater, Alex Neustaedter, and Jack Quaid in Ithaca (2015)
When his older brother leaves to fight in World War II, 14-year-old Homer Macauley takes on a job as a bicycle telegraph messenger to provide for his widowed mother, his older sister, and his younger brother. Delivering messages to the good people of Ithaca, he soon must grapple with a message that will change him forever.
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With his older brother off to war, fourteen-year-old telegram messenger Homer Macauley comes of age in the summer of 1942.With his older brother off to war, fourteen-year-old telegram messenger Homer Macauley comes of age in the summer of 1942.With his older brother off to war, fourteen-year-old telegram messenger Homer Macauley comes of age in the summer of 1942.
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    • Meg Ryan
    • Erik Jendresen(screenplay by)
    • William Saroyan(based on the novel "The Human Comedy")
  • Stars
    • Alex Neustaedter
    • Meg Ryan
    • Sam Shepard
    • Meg Ryan
    • Erik Jendresen(screenplay by)
    • William Saroyan(based on the novel "The Human Comedy")
  • Stars
    • Alex Neustaedter
    • Meg Ryan
    • Sam Shepard
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    • 35User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
    • 36Metascore
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    Alex Neustaedter
    Alex Neustaedter
    • Homer Macauley
    Meg Ryan
    Meg Ryan
    • Mrs. Macauley
    Sam Shepard
    Sam Shepard
    • Willie Grogan
    Hamish Linklater
    Hamish Linklater
    • Tom Spangler
    Jack Quaid
    Jack Quaid
    • Marcus Macauley
    Tom Hanks
    Tom Hanks
    • Matthew Macauley
    Spencer Howell
    • Ulysses Macauley
    Christine Nelson
    Christine Nelson
    • Bess Macauley
    Gabriel Basso
    Gabriel Basso
    • Tobey George
    Lois Robbins
    Lois Robbins
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    Lucia Scarano
    Lucia Scarano
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    Molly Gordon
    • Mary Arena
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    Scott Shepherd
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    James McCool
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      • Erik Jendresen(screenplay by)
      • William Saroyan(based on the novel "The Human Comedy")
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    • Trivia
      Meg Ryan's directorial debut.
    • Goofs
      When they are in the cinema watching the newsreel, there's a shot of a man carrying a wounded solider across a river. The commentary states "when this country was extending a helping hand..."

      The shot actually of an Australian soldier helping a wounded Australian in the Kokoda campaign in New Guinea. The film is footage from Kokoda Front Line, by Damian Parer, who was an Australian combat camera man.
    • Quotes

      Mrs. Macauley: There will always be pain in this world, Homer. And a good man will seek to take the pain out of things.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Meg Ryan/Nick Kroll and John Mulaney/Dan White (2016)

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    10/10
    The most soviet movie from all American movies ever
    B"H

    The most soviet movie from all American movies ever. So genuine,that IMHO even does not need translation.

    I do remember those woman that afraid of postman even 20-30 years after war ended . I remember this letter in my late grandmother documents.

    We do not have telegrams for this purpose in the soviet union but every house have this letters. Just imagine that from the man's born from 1923 to 1927 only 5% survive and most of the survivors was injured, disabled

    So it hard to watch, but thanks
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    • Nov 28, 2016

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      • September 9, 2016 (United States)
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      • Virginia, USA
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      • Co-Op Entertainment
      • The Exchange
      • Apple Lane Productions
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