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Steven Spielberg directed this powerful, realistic re-creation of WWII's D-day invasion and
the immediate aftermath. The story opens with a prologue in which a veteran brings his family
to the American cemetery at Normandy, and a flashback then joins Capt. John Miller (Tom Hanks)
and GIs in a landing craft making the June 6, 1944, approach to Omaha Beach to face devastating
German artillery fire. This mass slaughter of American soldiers is depicted in a compelling,
unforgettable 24-minute sequence. Miller's men slowly move forward to finally take a concrete
pillbox. On the beach littered with bodies is one with the name "Ryan" stenciled on his backpack.
Army Chief of Staff Gen. George C. Marshall (Harve Presnell), learning that three Ryan brothers
from the same family have all been killed in a single week, requests that the surviving brother,
Pvt. James Ryan (Matt Damon), be located and brought back to the United States. Capt. Miller
gets the assignment, and he chooses a translator, Cpl. Upham (Jeremy Davis), skilled in language
but not in combat, to join his squad of right-hand man Sgt. Horvath (Tom Sizemore), plus privates
Mellish (Adam Goldberg), Medic Wade (Giovanni Ribisi), cynical Reiben (Edward Burns) from Brooklyn,
Italian-American Caparzo (Vin Diesel), and religious Southerner Jackson (Barry Pepper), an ace
sharpshooter who calls on the Lord while taking aim. Having previously experienced action in
Italy and North Africa, the close-knit squad sets out through areas still thick with Nazis.
After they lose one man in a skirmish at a bombed village, some in the group begin to question
\the logic of losing more lives to save a single soldier. The film's historical consultant is
Stephen E. Ambrose, and the incident is based on a true occurance in Ambrose's 1994 bestseller
D-Day: June 6, 1944.
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Starring ... |
Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Tom Sizemore, Barry Pepper,
Adam Goldberg
Giovanni Ribisi, Matt Damon, Vin Diesel,
Jeremy Davies, Ted Danson,
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Director: Steven Spielberg
Producers:
Steven Spielberg, Mark Gordon, Gary Levinsohn, Ian Bryce
Year Released - July 1998
Length - 170 minutes
Music Composer: John Williams
Movie Distributed by Dreamworks & Paramount Pictures
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