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Pre-Production - ENGLISH - Drama - 89 minutes

Log Line

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.

Previous markets

  • Berlin EFM 2014 (Debut)
  • AFM 2015 (Premiere)
  • Berlin EFM 2016 (Line up)
Full history

Year of production : 2014

Director(s) : Meg RYAN
Writer(s) : Erik JENDRESEN
Cast : Sam SHEPARD, Jack QUAID, Meg RYAN, Melanie GRIFFITH

Producer(s) : Janet BRENNER, Laura IVEY

Synopsis

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 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, 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 – from a boy into a man. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan’s 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is the quintessential wartime tale of the Home Front. It is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the sweetness of life, the sting of death and the modesty and sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.

Production

Country(ies) : USA

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Festivals and Awards

Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2016


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