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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HANKS,TOM
EAN: 9780783233536
ISBN: 0783233531
Label: Dreamworks Video
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Dreamworks Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 02, 1999
Running Time: 169 minutes
Sales Rank: 784
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Product Description:
Captain John Miller must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 14-FEB-2006
Media Type: DVD
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When Steven Spielberg was an adolescent, his first home movie was a backyard war film. When he toured Europe with Duel in his 20s, he saw old men crumble in front of headstones at Omaha Beach. That image became the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan, his film of a mission following the D-day invasion that many have called the most realistic--and maybe the best--war film ever. With 1998 production standards, Spielberg has been able to create a stunning, unparalleled view of war as hell. We are at Omaha Beach as troops are slaughtered by Germans yet overcome the almost insurmountable odds.
A stalwart Tom Hanks plays Captain Miller, a soldier's soldier, who takes a small band of troops behind enemy lines to retrieve a private whose three brothers have recently been killed in action. It's a public relations move for the Army, but it has historical precedent dating back to the Civil War. Some critics of the film have labeled the central characters stereotypes. If that is so, this movie gives stereotypes a good name: Tom Sizemore as the deft sergeant, Edward Burns as the hotheaded Private Reiben, Barry Pepper as the religious sniper, Adam Goldberg as the lone Jew, Vin Diesel as the oversize Private Caparzo, Giovanni Ribisi as the soulful medic, and Jeremy Davies, who as a meek corporal gives the film its most memorable performance.
The movie is as heavy and realistic as Spielberg's Oscar-winning Schindler's List, but it's more kinetic. Spielberg and his ace technicians (the film won five Oscars: editing (Michael Kahn), cinematography (Janusz Kaminski), sound, sound effects, and directing) deliver battle sequences that wash over the eyes and hit the gut. The violence is extreme but never gratuitous. The final battle, a dizzying display of gusto, empathy, and chaos, leads to a profound repose. Saving Private Ryan touches us deeper than Schindler because it succinctly links the past with how we should feel today. It's the film Spielberg was destined to make. --Doug Thomas
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Movie review
Great movie!My son loves this particular movie because the scene at Omaha Beach is so life like!If you love war movies, this one is excellent!
Rating:  - DTS only!
by this date, anyone reading this will have already seen the movie.
by most accounts, this movie is a success in practically every aspect.
the DVD on the other hand absolutely ROCKS if you have the DTS version on a DTS-compatible receiver with 5/1 or 6.1 surround DTS ES.
along with Master & Commander, the beach-storming sequence in the beginning is a showroom piece that is at the top of every audiophile's favorite DVD list.
absolutely outstanding ... Read More
Rating: - stark and raw, yet personal
Yesterday, I watched Saving Private Ryan for the first time in about a decade, was struck by the realism and the small character moments that tie the film together and make it great, and I find myself wondering why I don't know more about my grandparents' lives in this harsh time...and contemplating what other truths from this time I have yet to uncover.
Stark and raw, this film is, but what makes it superb are those personal moments.
Rating: - saving prvate ryan
One of the top ten movies of all time - hard to watch because of the stark reality of war. But a must see movie !
Great Buy
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Rating: - Used in History Class
Saving Private Ryan was purchased to show in my World History class that I teach at a private school.An engaging movie, it kept the student's interest and engraved in their minds the history surrounding D-Day and the significance of the landing and following occupation of France in 1944.
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