Saving Private Ryan

Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American English - language film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. It is an epic war film starring Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Matt Damon and Tom Sizemore. The film follows the journey of United States Army Rangers Captain John H. Miller and his team as they search for a paratrooper, Private First Class James Francis Ryan. The film opens with the Allied invasion on Normandy beach on June 6, 1944. Cpt. Miller and the members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion fight to secure the beachhead. During the invasion, two brothers lost their lives while in action. The third brother was killed earlier in New Guinea. The mother of the brothers is about to receive 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 finds out that there was also a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, who went missing somewhere in France. He sends Cpt. Miller and seven other people from the 2nd Ranger Battalion go in search of him and bring the only son alive of the four brothers back to his mother.