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Saving Private Ryan (1998) 8.6
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8.6/10 from 495,158 users
Metascore: 90/100
Reviews: 2,154 user | 197 critic | 34 from Metacritic.com 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 SpielbergWriter:Robert Rodat |
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Cast
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| Tom Sizemore | ... | ||
| Edward Burns | ... | ||
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| Adam Goldberg | ... | ||
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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... Written by J.Zelman
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There was only one man left in the family, and the mission was to save him. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for intense prolonged realistically graphic sequences of war violence, and for language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USARelease Date:
24 July 1998 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Rescatando al soldado Ryan See more »Box Office
Budget:
$70,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$63,500,000 (Non-US) (2 October 1998)Gross:
$216,119,491 (USA) (21 May 1999)Company Credits
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1.85 : 1
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Ryan's son: [running to comfort his father] Dad?
[flashback to D-Day]
LCVP pilot: Clear the ramp! Thirty seconds. God be with ya!
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(1942)
Written by Henri Contet & Jean Jal
Performed by Édith Piaf
Courtesy of Mercury Records, France
By Arrangement with PolyGram Film & TV Music
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Did You Know?
Goofs
At the beginning of the movie during the invasion scenes, Captain Miller has his Captain's bars prominently displayed on the front of his helmet. A popular misconception is that nobody with rank wore it on the front lines. This was not true for the initial D-day operations. Photographic evidence shows ranger officers with their rank in white (like Miller) or black (like Hamill) on the front of their helmets. Only after the initial D-day operations did officers and NCOs employ the white vertical stripe and the horizontal stripe (respectively) on the back of their helmets to avoid being primary targets of sniper fire. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Ryan's son: [running to comfort his father] Dad?
[flashback to D-Day]
LCVP pilot: Clear the ramp! Thirty seconds. God be with ya!
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Crazy Credits
There are no opening credits after the title is shown. See more »Soundtracks
"C'Était Une Histoire D'Amour"(1942)
Written by Henri Contet & Jean Jal
Performed by Édith Piaf
Courtesy of Mercury Records, France
By Arrangement with PolyGram Film & TV Music
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It gives a million reason why no one should go to war and one very powerful reason to go to war. It is a soul numbing realistic depiction of what our grandfathers, fathers, uncles, brothers and sons have faced in humanities darkest moments. Not just in WWII but in any war. No one can see this movies without being altered in some way. No one should miss it with the EXCEPTION of those war veterans that have already been there. The surround sound puts the audience in the middle of the battle.
Steven Spielberg has out done himself and effectively held up a mirror to civilization for events to which we should all be ashamed of, rather than appalled at the movie for its real life depictions. I suggest that this movie be made standard view for congress as well as the President each and every time the question of war comes up. This movie would not stop future wars but I would hope the objectives would be much more clearly defined. I say this as a US Marine.