# Ithaca (2015)

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**Runtime**: 96 min
**Genres**: Drama
**Directed by**: Meg Ryan
**Written by**: Erik Jendresen
**Starring**: Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater, Alex Neustaedter, Meg Ryan, Jack Quaid, Tom Hanks

> *One message will change everything.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

The Goonies meets wartime pastoral. A 14-year-old bike courier in 1942 keeps his Depression-era family afloat by delivering telegrams across a sunbaked California valley while his brother ships off to war. The mail dumps a death notice that rewires his boyhood into something harder. Somber yet sun-drenched coming-of-age anchored by a kid’s stubborn decency.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, tender

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