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Saving Private Ryan (1998)

R | | Drama, War | 24 July 1998 (USA)
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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.

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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
... Captain Miller
... Sergeant Horvath
... Private Reiben
... Private Jackson
... Private Mellish
... Private Caparzo
... T-4 Medic Wade
... Corporal Upham
... Private Ryan
... Captain Hamill
... Sergeant Hill
... Lieutenant Colonel Anderson
Joerg Stadler ... Steamboat Willie
... Corporal Henderson (as Maximilian Martini)
... Toynbe
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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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rescue mission | normandy | world war two | army | soldier | See All (195) »

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The mission is a man. See more »

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Drama | War

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for intense prolonged realistically graphic sequences of war violence, and for language | See all certifications »

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Box Office

Budget:

$70,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$30,576,104, 26 July 1998, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$216,540,909, 15 June 2012

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$481,840,909, 15 June 2012
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Trivia

Voted #1 greatest war film in UK's Channel 4 poll in 2005. See more »

Goofs

Throughout the film we see indications that someone has been shot when a puff of grey dust comes from the body as it gets hit. This grey dust is coming from a smaller version of a paint ball filled with a white powder that the camera can capture. The mistake is that it should be blood, or nothing, not a white powder - unless the entire German army from D-day to Ramelle is dusty. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Ryan's son: [running to comfort his father] Dad?
[flashback to D-Day]
LCVP pilot: [shouting out the soldiers on the raft] CLEAR THE RAMP! THIRTY SECONDS! GOD BE WITH YA!
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Soundtracks

Solitude
(1934)
Music by Duke Ellington
Lyrics by Irving Mills and Edgar De Lange (as Eddie DeLange)
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Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What were the Allied Troopers chewing on in the landing craft before the Battle of Omaha?
Q: What was the name of the Edith Piaf song Upham was translating in the village?
Q: How does the movie end?
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Breathtaking
17 November 1999 | by – See all my 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.
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