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Ithaca is a 2015 American drama film directed by Meg Ryan and written by Erik Jendresen. It is based on the 1943 novel The Human Comedy by William Saroyan. The film stars Alex Neustaedter, Jack Quaid, Meg Ryan, Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater and Tom Hanks. The film was released on September 9, 2016, by Momentum Pictures.
Ithaca: Directed by Meg Ryan. With Alex Neustaedter, Meg Ryan, Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater. With his older brother off to war, fourteen-year-old telegram messenger Homer Macauley comes of age in the summer of 1942.
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- Drama, War
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- 2016-09-09
Jun 13, 2017 · In 2015, Meg Ryan directed her first movie, Ithaca, based on a 1943 novel The Human Comedy by William Saroyan. Set during World War II in the town of Ithaca, Ryan plays a widowed woman, Mrs. Macauley, who lives with her three younger children.
Ithaca is an island in the Ionian Sea in Greece, which was an important setting in one of the most famous myths of ancient Greece, the Odyssey. The main hero of the story, Odysseus, lived in Ithaca and was its rightful ruler.
Modern Ithaca has traditionally been accepted to be Homer's island. The central characters of the epic, such as Odysseus, Achilles, Agamemnon and Hector, are traditionally considered fictional figures from folklore, but aspects of the Homeric story may have some basis in actual historical events or people.
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Jul 22, 2024 · According to Homer, Odysseus was king of Ithaca, son of Laertes and Anticleia (the daughter of Autolycus of Parnassus), and father, by his wife, Penelope, of Telemachus. (In later tradition, Odysseus was instead the son of Sisyphus and fathered sons by Circe, Calypso, and others.)
