Ithaca (2015)
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.
Director:
Meg Ryan
Writer:
Erik Jendresen
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Sam Shepard as Willie Grogan |
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Hamish Linklater as Tom Spangler |
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Alex Neustaedter as Homer |
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Meg Ryan as Mrs. Macauley |
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Jack Quaid as Marcus Macauley |
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Tom Hanks as Mr. Macauley |
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Nick Williams as Texas |
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Christine Nelson as Bess Macauley |
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Lucia Scarano as Rosa Sandoval |
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Zachary Webber as Horse |
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Trey Hines as Harry |
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Lois Robbins as Mrs. Beaufrere |
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Bridget Gethins as Dolly Hawthorn |
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James McCool as Lionel |
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Spencer Howell as Ulysses Macauley |
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Cait Moira as Helen Eliot |
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Gabriel Basso as Tobey George |
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Molly Gordon as Mary Arena |
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Samantha Smedley as Girl at Bus Stop |
| Directing | Meg Ryan | Director |
| Writing | Erik Jendresen | Screenplay |
| Writing | William Saroyan | Novel |
| Production | Janet Brenner | Producer |
| Production | Laura Ivey | Producer |
| Production | Erik Jendresen | Producer |
| Production | Jason Cloth | Executive Producer |
| Production | Aaron L. Gilbert | Executive Producer |
| Production | Gary Goetzman | Executive Producer |
| Production | Tom Hanks | Executive Producer |
| Camera | Andrew Dunn | Director of Photography |
| Production | Tiffany Little Canfield | Casting |
| Production | Bernard Telsey | Casting |
| Art | Alice Baker | Set Decoration |
| Art | Richard Blankenship | Art Direction |
| Art | Stephanie Carroll | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Amelia 'Amy' Andrews | Costume Design |
| Production | Larry Rapaport | Unit Production Manager |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rhonda Bareford | Key Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ashley Fetterman | Makeup Department Head |
| Costume & Make-Up | Katie Middleton | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nicole Tucker | Key Hair Stylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Cynthia Vanis | Hair Department Head |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nakoya Yancey | Assistant Hairstylist |
| Directing | Urs Hirschbiegel | First Assistant Director |
| Directing | Marlee Kamis | Second Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | James Nimmers | Second Assistant Director |
| Directing | Caroline Stephenson | Second Assistant Director |
| Sound | John Mellencamp | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | John F. Lyons | Editor |
