Bibliograph

Ithaca, Momentum Pictures ; Bron Studios [and others] ; produced by Janet Brenner, Laura Ivey, Erik Jendresen ; screenplay by Erik Jendresen ; directed by Meg Ryan

Type

Label

Ithaca, Momentum Pictures ; Bron Studios [and others] ; produced by Janet Brenner, Laura Ivey, Erik Jendresen ; screenplay by Erik Jendresen ; directed by Meg Ryan

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

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

Main title

Ithaca

Oclc number

957180307

Responsibility statement

Momentum Pictures ; Bron Studios [and others] ; produced by Janet Brenner, Laura Ivey, Erik Jendresen ; screenplay by Erik Jendresen ; directed by Meg Ryan

Runtime

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

adolescent

Technique

live action

Contributor