“Ithaca” (** out of four) was a meandering and sluggish small-town period piece set in the 1940’s about a young bicycle messenger (Jack Quaid) whose brother has gone off to war and whose father (Tom Hanks) recently died and lives trying to comfort his distant mother (Meg Ryan) while coming into his own as a young man. Directorial debut for Meg Ryan is an affectionate homage to Americana and shows she has a strong eye for small-down detail but hardly anything happens and you soon realize that the movie has no point and no story. Haunting music score by John Mellencamp is a major plus. A wasted reteaming of Hanks and Ryan who are in the movie very briefly and this is no match whatsoever for their classic “Sleepless In Seattle.”