| Note |
Based on the novel "The human comedy" by William Saroyan. |
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Special features: Ithac: filming in Virginia. |
| NOTE |
English language. SDH, subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. |
| Credits |
Original music by John Mellencamp ; director of photography, Andrew Dunn ; edited by John F. Lyons. |
| Cast |
Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Sam Shepard, Jack Quaid, Hamish Linklater, Molly Gordon, Alex Neustaedter. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements, a war image, and smoking. |
| System details |
DVD ; region 1 ; Dolby digital 5.1 ; 16 x 9 widescreen (2.40:1). |
| Subject |
Saroyan, William, 1908-1981 -- Film adaptations.
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Bicycle messengers -- Drama.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama.
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Families -- Drama.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Film adaptations.
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Coming-of-age films.
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Fiction films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Add'l Names |
Ryan, Meg, director, actor.
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Hanks, Tom, actor, producer.
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Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017, actor.
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Gordon, Molly, 1994- actor.
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Linklater, Hamish, actor.
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Neustaedter, Alex, 1998- actor.
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Quaid, Jack, 1992- actor.
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Motion picture adaptation of (work): Saroyan, William, 1908-1981.
Human comedy.
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| Other corporate author |
Momentum Pictures.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm), publisher.
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| ISBN |
9786316629494
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6316629494
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| STANDARD # |
741952827191 |
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EOE-DV-8271 Entertainment One |
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