Ithaca
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 anybody has seen. His brother went to war, leaving Homer to check after his former 4-year-old brother, his sister and his mother. So it is that as spring turns into summer, 1942, Homer Macauley brings messages of love, hope, pain... and passing... into the good folks of Ithaca. And then Homer Macauley will grapple with an individual message that could change him forever - from the boy into a man. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning writer William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is the wartime story of Your Home Front. It is the sweetness of life, a story regarding the exuberance of childhood, the sting of departure and also the goodness that resides in each one of us.
Released: 2015-10-29
Genre:
Drama
Duration: 96
min
Country:
United States of America