Saving Private Ryan
IMDB Rating: 8.40, 172681 votes
|
Taglines
- I'll see you on the beach!
- In the Last Great Invasion of the Last Great War, The Greatest Danger for Eight Men was Saving... One.
- The mission is a man.
- The movie that inspired to the world to remember
- There was only one man left in the family, and the mission was to save him.
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...
Actors
| Captain John H. Miller | Tom Hanks |
| Sergeant Mike Horvath | Tom Sizemore |
| Pvt. Richard Reiben | Edward Burns |
| Pvt. Daniel Jackson | Barry Pepper |
| Pvt. Stanley Mellish | Adam Goldberg |
| Private Adrian Caparzo | Vin Diesel |
| T-4 Medic Irwin Wade | Giovanni Ribisi |
| Cpl. Timothy P. Upham | Jeremy Davies |
| Private James Francis Ryan | Matt Damon |
| Captain Fred Hamill | Ted Danson |
| Sergeant Hill | Paul Giamatti |
| Lieutenant Colonel Anderson | Dennis Farina |
| Steamboat Willie | Joerg Stadler |
| Corporal Henderson | Steven Martini |
| Toynbe | Dylan Bruno |
|
Posted in: 1998, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, War
Tagged: 1940s, ambush, american, anti semitism, army, army rangers, based on true story, battle, beach, bilingualism, blockbuster, blood, blood splatter, bravery, bridge, browning automatic rifle, brutality, bunker, cemetery, character name in title, christianity, combat, controversial, cowardice, critically acclaimed, crushed to death, d day, death, death in battle, death notice, death of friend, desaturated colors, disembowelment, dismemberment, dog tag, drowning, english teacher, epic, exploding body, exploding building, exploding tank, fighter bomber attack, flame thrower, friendship, general, german, gore, graphic violence, gunfire, halftrack, hand grenade, heroism, historical, horrors of war, human relationship, humanity, hyperrealism, infantry, invasion, iowa, jewish, landmine, loss of brother, machine gun, machine gun nest, mercy, military, military officer, mistaken identity, molotov cocktail, morphine, mutilation, nonlinear timeline, normandy, omaha beach, person on fire, plane wreck, pow, prayer, present day, profanity, rescue, self sacrifice, severed arm, severed leg, shelling, shot in the arm, shot in the back, shot in the chest, shot in the eye, shot in the face, shot in the forehead, shot in the leg, shot to death, skip motion, sniper, sniper rifle, soldier, stabbed in the chest, stabbed to death, stabbing, tank, title spoken by character, tommy gun, tragedy, tragic ending, tragic incident, translator, trench, u.s. army, violence, violent movie, vomit scene, vulgarity, war memorial, washington d.c., wwii, wwii veteran
One Trackback
[...] Saving Private Ryan [...]