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Saving Private Ryan

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• War
• Drama

• 1998
• Steven Spielberg
• 162 mins
• 15

Summary

Second World War drama directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore and Edward Burns, and featuring Matt Damon. As the horror of the Normandy landings takes its toll, three brothers lie dead. Captain Miller is sent on a special mission in occupied France to bring home the fourth brother, Private Ryan - no matter what the cost.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

David Parkinson

With this Oscar-winning attempt to reshape the past through fiction, Steven Spielberg comes closer than ever before to depicting historical truth. The action opens brutally with a gut-wrenching re-creation of the Second World War D-Day landing on Omaha beach. Veterans of the campaign are divided on the authenticity of some of the more spectacularly gory injuries, but most agree that Spielberg and cinematographer Janusz Kaminski succeeded in capturing the terrifying and bewildering chaos of the encounter. Yet, away from the fighting, the film occasionally lapses into combat-picture cliché, with too many members of Tom Hanks's unit recalling stereotypical soldiers from morale-boosting movies made during the war itself. But, then, this is less about the conflict and its concerns than it is about the war films that Spielberg grew up watching. Ultimately, it lacks the resonance of such classics as All Quiet on the Western Front, but (apart from its corny bookend sequences) this is still well-meaning, strongly acted and slickly mounted, and ranks among the director's very best films.

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8.6/10

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Cast

rolenameCaptain MillerTom HanksSergeant HorvathTom SizemorePrivate ReibenEdward BurnsPrivate JacksonBarry PepperPrivate MellishAdam GoldbergPrivate CaparzoVin DieselT/4 Medic WadeGiovanni RibisiCorporal UphamJeremy DaviesPrivate RyanMatt DamonCaptain HamillTed DansonOld Mrs RyanKathleen Byron

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Details

Theatrical distributor

Park Circus

Released on

2019-06-06

Languages

English | Czech | German | French

Guidance

Violence, swearing.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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