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Ithaca reunites Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan for the umpteenth time after films like Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail and Joe Versus the Volcano, and this time Ms Ryan is directing.
It centres around 14-year-old Homer Macauley (Alex Neustaedter) is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen.
The billing states: 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 delivers messages of love, hope, pain… and death… to the good people of Ithaca. And he’ll grapple with one message that will change him forever…
(Pardon me while I’m sick)
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.
(barf)
Adapted for the screen by Erik Jendresen, the film also stars Sam Shepard, Molly Gordon, Hamish Linklater, Jack Quaid, Gabriel Basso and Scott Shepherd, and, for me, it’s one to miss.
Thankfully, there’s no UK release date for this rubbish yet.
Check out the trailer below and click on the poster for the full-size image.
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