This movie is about a young man, Homer Macauley (Alex Neustaedter) who works as a delivery person with his bike. Problems is he delivers telegraphs from the war department informing people of deaths in the war. He works for Tom Spangler (Hamish Linklater) and with Willie Grogan (Sam Shepard). His own father (Tom Hanks) has recently passed away but visits his mother (Meg Ryan) as a ghost. His younger brother (Spencer Howell) is precocious and about town, his older sister (Christine Nelson) has a boyfriend, and his older brother (Jack Quaid) is off to war. Everything falls apart when Grogan the telegraph operator get the message that Hoer's brother has been killed in the war. The telegraph operator dies. And Homer gets to deliver the message to his mother. Fortunately a fellow soldier beats him to the home to tell his mother of the loss.
I really didn't care for this movie. I couldn't see what was the point. Meg Ryan directed and it is baed on a book, The Human Comedy by William Saroyan.
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