Ithaca Movie Updates

Sat., Sep. 17, 2016

from Amazon

Amazon

• added the US DVD release date of October 4, 2016

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Sat., Aug. 20, 2016

from Momentum Pictures

Momentum Pictures

• added drama as a genre
• added a synopsis

• 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 4-year-old brother... show all , 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.

• added a poster to the gallery
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• added Theatrical Trailer to trailers & videos
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• added a poster to the gallery
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• set the MPAA rating to PG for thematic elements, a war image, and smoking
• added Hamish Linklater as actor to credits
• added Tom Hanks as actor to credits
• added a synopsis

• 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 l... show all ove, hope, pain and death to the good people of Ithaca, but soon must grapple with a message that will change him forever. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan’s 1943 novel The Human Comedy, Ithaca is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the abruptness of change, the sweetness of life, the sting of death, and the sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.

• added Momentum Pictures as a distributor
• changed the US film release date from TBA to September 9, 2016
• set film release to Limited
• changed the production status to Completed

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Tue., Feb. 4, 2014

from Deadline

Meg Ryan to Direct 'Ithaca' With Tom Hanks Executive Producing

Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks are reuniting. Ryan will make her directorial debut on Ithaca.

• changed the production status to Announced
• added Erik Jendresen as screenwriter to credits
• added Jack Quaid as actor to credits
• added Melanie Griffith as actor to credits
• added Sam Shepard as actor to credits
• added Playtone as a production company
• added Meg Ryan as director to credits
• added Tom Hanks as executive producer to credits
• added coming-of-age as genre
• added a synopsis

• Set in a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley in 1942, fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley, a telegraph bike messenger, is left to care for his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother, after his older brother goes to figh... show all t in World War II. The effects of the war are revealed as Homer delivers messages of love, friendship, pain and death, including one message that alters his own life forever.

• created the movie profile