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.
Movie tag line: "One message will change everything."
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Character: Willie Grogan
Character: Tom Spangler
Character: Homer
Character: Mrs. Macauley
Character: Marcus Macauley
Character: Mr. Macauley
Character: Texas
Character: Bess Macauley
Character: Rosa Sandoval
Character: Horse
Character: Harry
Character: Mrs. Beaufrere
Character: Dolly Hawthorn
Character: Lionel
Character: Ulysses Macauley
Character: Helen Eliot
Character: Tobey George
Character: Mary Arena
Character: Girl at Bus Stop