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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...

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Other Authors: Ryan, Meg (Film director, Actor), Brenner, Janet, 1956- (Film producer), Ivey, Laura, 1973- (Film producer), Jendresen, Erik (Film producer, Screenwriter), Linklater, Hamish (Actor), Neustaedter, Alex, 1998- (Actor), Hanks, Tom (Actor), Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017 (Actor), Gordon, Molly, 1994- (Actor), Mellencamp, John, 1951- (composer (expression)), Dunn, Andrew (Andrew William) (Cinematographer), Lyons, John F. (Editor of moving image work), Saroyan, William, 1908-1981
Format: Videos DVD
Language:English
Published: Port Washington, NY : Momentum Pictures, [2016]
Subjects:
Bicycle messengers > Drama.
World War, 1914-1918 > Drama.
Families > Drama.
Coming-of-age films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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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.
Item Description: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.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD, region 1, widescreen (16x9, 2.40); Dolby digital 5.1
Audience:MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements, a war image, and smoking.
Production Credits:Original music, John Mellencamp ; director of photography, Andrew Dunn ; editor, John F. Lyons.

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