Rotten
Hanks' casting feels like a missed opportunity-much like the rest of Ithaca.
Devan Coggan, Entertainment Weekly
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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13%
Tomatometer
Fresh
"Ithaca" is the sort of frustrating movie that's just good enough to make you wish it were a lot better.
Joe Leydon, Variety
Fresh
Ms. Ryan's muted approach may be what we've come to expect of looks back at this period ... But she executes the formula well.
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times
Rotten
If you can't see where it's all heading, you're probably wearing a onesie and wondering how the mobile over your head works.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Rotten
Ryan's debut as a director is a sketchy and starchy film.
Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News
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