# Der Soldat James Ryan (1998)

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**Original title**: *Saving Private Ryan*
**Runtime**: 169 min
**Genres**: War, Drama, History
**Directed by**: Steven Spielberg
**Written by**: Robert Rodat
**Starring**: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel

> *The mission is a man.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

You land on the beach at Normandy, bullets ripping all around. Two brothers fall, and word comes of a third. But a fourth Ryan remains, somewhere. So you and seven others head out to find him.

Spielberg's visceral staging of war redefined the genre for a generation weaned on irony. The film lingers.

**Mood tags**: epic, gut-punch, raw

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 8.6/10 (1635552 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 94% · Metacritic 91/100

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