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Saving Private Ryan (1998)

 -  Action | 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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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 »

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Action | Drama | War

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

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24 July 1998 (USA)  »

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Saving Private Ryan  »

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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)
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Trivia

Selected as the opening film at the 55th Venice Film Festival in 1998. See more »

Goofs

During the D-Day beach assault, German machine-gunners are shown firing continuous long bursts from their MG42's. In reality, MG crews were trained to fire in shorter bursts, in order to avoid overheating the barrels of their guns. However in the heat of battle and when confronted with such a large quantity of troops they could of being firing out of instinct. However, had they done this, they would have melted the barrels of their weapons and been unable to 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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Featured in The Spirit of America (2001) See more »

Soundtracks

Tu Es Partout
(1941)
Written by Édith Piaf & Marguerite Monnot
Performed by Édith Piaf
Courtesy of Mercury Records, France
By Arrangement with PolyGram Film & TV Music
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Breathtaking
17 November 1999 | by (Strongsville, Ohio) – 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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