Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Ithaca / Momentum Pictures presents ; a Co-op Entertainment production with Apple Lane Productions and Pilothouse Pictures in association with Shy Moon Productions ; produced by Janet Brenner, Laura Ivey, Erik Jendresen ; screenplay by Erik Jendresen ; directed by Meg Ryan.

Publisher, Date:

Port Washington, NY : Momentum Pictures, [2016]

Description:

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

digital optical

video file DVD video

Summary:

Fourteen-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 four-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.

Target Audience Note:

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

Subjects:

Saroyan, William, 1908-1981 -- Film adaptations.

Bicycle messengers -- Drama.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama.

Families -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Film adaptations.

Coming-of-age films.

Fiction films.