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Ithaca is a 2015 American drama film directed by Meg Ryan and written by Erik Jendresen. It is based on the 1943 novel The Human Comedy by William Saroyan. The film stars Alex Neustaedter, Jack Quaid, Meg Ryan, Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater and Tom Hanks. The film was released on September 9, 2016, by Momentum Pictures.
Modern Ithaca has traditionally been accepted to be Homer's island. The central characters of the epic, such as Odysseus, Achilles, Agamemnon and Hector, are traditionally considered fictional figures from folklore, but aspects of the Homeric story may have some basis in actual historical events or people.
Oct 29, 2015 · 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.
Ithaca: Directed by Meg Ryan. With Alex Neustaedter, Meg Ryan, Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater. With his older brother off to war, fourteen-year-old telegram messenger Homer Macauley comes of age in the summer of 1942.
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- Drama, War
- Meg Ryan
- 2016-09-09
Sep 9, 2016 · The setting is Ithaca — Saroyan’s fictional version of his real-life home town of Fresno, Calif. — during the early days of U.S. involvement in World War II. (The movie was shot on various...
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.
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Jun 13, 2017 · In 2015, Meg Ryan directed her first movie, Ithaca, based on a 1943 novel The Human Comedy by William Saroyan. Set during World War II in the town of Ithaca, Ryan plays a widowed woman, Mrs. Macauley, who lives with her three younger children.
