Available august 12

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 4-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.

Selling Points

• Directorial debut of Meg Ryan, who is known as the queen of romantic comedies for her starring roles in When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle and You’ve Got Mail  

• Features an appearance by Hollywood legend and Academy Award® winning megastar Tom Hanks, who also serves as executive producer 

• Entire score composed by Grammy Award® winning rock star John Mellencamp 

•  Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan’s 1943 novel, The Human Comedy

Director: 

• Meg Ryan

Producer:

• Laura Ivey, Janet Brenner

Genre

• Drama

Starring:

• Meg Ryan

  (You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally)

• Tom Hanks 

  (Captain Phillips, Saving Private Ryan, Forest Gump)

• Sam Shepard 

  (August: Osage County, Black Hawk Down)

• Hamish Linklater

  (Fantastic Four)