Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers
go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed
in action.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Robert Rodat
Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore
Storyline
Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy
on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight
ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in
action. Earlier in New
Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their
mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same
day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an
opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother,
Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select
members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother.
Box Office
Budget: $70,000,000 (estimated)
Opening Weekend: $30,576,104 (USA) (24 July 1998)
Gross: $216,119,491 (USA) (21 May 1999)
User Reviews
I
have never been affected by a movie the way Saving Private Ryan affected me.
That movie really took me out of my seat in the movie theater and practically
had me believing I was really in the battle with John Miller. When somebody was
dying in that movie, it felt as if you could almost feel their pain. Speilberg
did an unbelievable job of putting realism into this movie with the camera-work
and everything else. Simply amazing. An all time great.
