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DVD

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  • CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection
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Ithaca

Author

Meg Ryan

Call Number

  • DVD DRAMA (CEN, EAS, WSQ)

Languages

In English, with optional English subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Performers

Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater, Meg Ryan, Alex Neustaedter, Jack Quaid, Tom Hanks.

Publication Information

Port Washington, NY : Momentum Pictures, [2016]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (96 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

MPAA rating: PG; thematic elements, a war image, and smoking.

Summary

When his older brother leaves to fight in the Second World War, fourteen-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. Homer delivers messages of love, hope, pain and death to the good people of Ithaca, but soon must grapple with a message that will change him forever.

Notes

Title from container.

Based on the novel "The human comedy" by William Saroyan.

DVD release of the 2016 motion picture.

Special feature: Ithaca: filming in Virginia.

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