| Description |
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical surround Dolby 5.1 rda |
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video file DVD video rda |
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Motion picture |
| System Details |
DVD, region 1, widescreen (16x9, 2.40); Dolby digital 5.1 |
| Language |
English dialogue with optional English SDH subtitles. |
| Cast |
Sam Shepard, Hamish Linklater, Meg Ryan, Alex Neustaedter, Tom Hanks, Molly Gordon, Scott Shepherd. |
| Credits |
Original music, John Mellencamp ; director of photography, Andrew Dunn ; editor, John F. Lyons. |
| Note |
Originally released as a motion picture in 2015. |
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Widescreen. |
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Based on the novel "The human comedy" by William Saroyan. |
| Audience |
MPAA rating: PG; for thematic elements, a war image, and smoking. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Special features: Filming in Virginia. |
| Subject |
Bicycle messengers -- Drama.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama.
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Families -- Drama.
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Bicycle messengers. (OCoLC)fst00831451
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World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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| Chronological Term |
1914-1918
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| Genre/Form |
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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Coming-of-age films. (OCoLC)fst01726250
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Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
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Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
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Fiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710264
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Film adaptations. (OCoLC)fst01710491
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired. (OCoLC)fst01710450
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| Added Author |
Ryan, Meg, film director, actor.
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Brenner, Janet, film producer.
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Ivey, Laura, film producer.
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Jendresen, Erik, film producer, screenwriter.
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Linklater, Hamish, actor.
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Neustaedter, Alex, actor.
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Hanks, Tom, actor.
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Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017 actor.
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Gordon, Molly, actor.
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Mellencamp, John, 1951- composer (expression)
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Dunn, Andrew (Andrew William), cinematographer.
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Lyons, John F., editor of moving image work.
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Motion picture adaptation of (work): Saroyan, William, 1908-1981.
Human comedy.
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Co-op Entertainment, production company.
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Apple Lane Productions, production company.
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Pilothouse Pictures, production company.
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Shy Moon Productions, production company.
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Momentum Pictures, publisher, presenter.
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| Standard No. |
741952827191 |
| Music No. |
EOE-DV-8271 Momentum Pictures |
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