Fiction
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©2016
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
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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 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
Originally released as a motion picture in 2015
Widescreen
Based on the novel "The human comedy" by William Saroyan
Special features: Filming in Virginia
Original music, John Mellencamp ; director of photography, Andrew Dunn ; editor, John F. Lyons
Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater, Meg Ryan, Alex Neustaedter, Tom Hanks, Molly Gordon, Scott Shepherd
MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements, a war image, and smoking
DVD, region 1, widescreen (16x9, 2.40); Dolby digital 5.1
English dialogue; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)