Movie: Saving Private Ryan (1998)

“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”

  • Director: Steven Spielberg
  • Release Date: 24 July 1998 (USA)
  • Run Time: 170 min
  • Country: USA
  • Genre: Action , Drama , War
  • MPAA: Rated R for intense prolonged realistically graphic sequences of war violence, and for language.

Tagline: In the Last Great Invasion of the Last Great War, The Greatest Danger for Eight Men was Saving… One.

Trivia: The Department of Veterans Affairs set up a special 800 number to help the hundreds of former soldiers who were traumatized after seeing the film.

Goofs: Continuity: After the last Tiger tank is destroyed in the final battle, Allied reinforcement troops arrive. There is a scene with a Sherman tank approaching the bridge with the troops, and it is raining. The scenes before and after have no rain.

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