Ithaca Momentum Pictures presents ; a Co-op Entertainment production with Apple Lane Productions and Pilothouse Pictures in association with Shy Moon Productions ; produced by Janet Brenner, Laura Ivey, Erik Jendresen ; screenplay by Erik Jendresen ; directed by Meg Ryan. - Port Washington, NY : Momentum Pictures, [2016] - 1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 2015. Widescreen. Based on the novel "The human comedy" by William Saroyan. Special features: Filming in Virginia.





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.

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




English dialogue; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH). Closed-captioned.

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EOE-DV-8271 Momentum Pictures




1914-1918


Bicycle messengers--Drama.
World War, --1914-1918--Drama.
Families--Drama.
World War, --United States--1939-1945--Drama--Videorecordings.



PN1997.2 / .I84 2016

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