| 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. |
| Language |
English dialogue; English subtitles; closed-captioned. |
| Cast |
Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Sam Shepard, Molly Gordon, Hamish Linklater, Scott Shepherd. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Saroyan, William, 1908-1981 -- Film adaptations.
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Saroyan, William, 1908-1981 -- Videodiscs. |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Families -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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World War (1914-1918) -- Videodiscs. |
| Chronological Term |
1914-1918 -- Videodiscs. |
| Genre |
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.
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Drama.
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Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Film adaptations.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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DVD-video discs.
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| Added Author |
Ryan, Meg, film director, 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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Motion picture adaptation of (work): Saroyan, William, 1908-1981.
Human comedy.
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm), publisher.
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| Standard No. |
741952827191 |
| Music No. |
EOEDV8271 Columbia |
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