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Saving Private Ryan (1998)
8.5
Ratings: 8.5/10 from 397,556 users
Metascore:
90/100
Reviews: 2,137 user | 182 critic | 34 from Metacritic.com Following the Normandy Landings, a group of US 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 Hanks | ... | ||
| Tom Sizemore | ... | ||
| Edward Burns | ... | ||
| Barry Pepper | ... | ||
| Adam Goldberg | ... | ||
| Vin Diesel | ... | ||
| Giovanni Ribisi | ... | ||
| Jeremy Davies | ... | ||
| Matt Damon | ... | ||
| Ted Danson | ... | ||
| Paul Giamatti | ... | ||
| Dennis Farina | ... | ||
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Joerg Stadler | ... | |
| Max Martini | ... |
Cpl. Henderson
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| Dylan Bruno | ... | ||
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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... Written by J.Zelman
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The mission is a man. 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:
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Rescatando al soldado Ryan See more »Box Office
Budget:
$70,000,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$30,576,104 (USA) (26 July 1998) (2463 Screens)Gross:
$224,700,000 (Worldwide) (20 December 1998) (except USA)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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Trivia
The opening and closing of the film features a US flag backlit by the sun. This is exactly the same as a shot in Leni Riefenstahl's Tag der Freiheit - Unsere Wehrmacht. In that film, a Nazi flag gently sways in the wind, with the sun shining through it from behind, rendering the flag somewhat translucent. See more »Goofs
Continuity: During the Ramelle battle, Cpl. Henderson and Pvt. Mellish are firing through a hole in the wall of a room at advancing German soldiers. Mellish is armed with an M1 Garand. Just before the scene where Henderson fires his Thompson through the wall at the sound of footsteps on the stairs, Mellish proclaims that his rifle is jammed. He is not seen clearing it. After Henderson fires through the wall and kills a soldier on the other side, gunfire burst back through the wall and hits Henderson in the neck, mortally wounding him. A 2nd German on the other side of the wall holds his machine gun through the door and fires. Mellish ducks, then fires a last round from his Garand, which ejects the magazine clip. The shot kills the 2nd German. The gun would not have been able to fire if the gun was jammed only moments earlier. 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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