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Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat.Set in 1944 in Normandy, France, during World War II, it follows a group of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (), on a mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan and bring him home safely after his three brothers have been killed in action.
Rodat wrote Saving Private Ryan (1998), [3] The Comrades of Summer (1992), Tall Tale (1995), [4] Fly Away Home with Vince McKewin (1996), [5] and The Patriot (2000). [3] He worked on the revision of the script for the 2008 film 10,000 BC [6] and helped with the story of 2013 film Thor: The Dark World. [3]
Young gained recognition for his role as the elderly Private James Ryan in Steven Spielberg's war epic Saving Private Ryan (1998). [3] Having starred in over 100 films and television episodes, Young's other credits include Passions, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses. [4]
Saving Private Ryan won him Best Drama Picture at 1999 Online Film & Television Association Film Award and 2nd place in Best Motion Picture at Awards Circuit Community Awards. Levinsohn, along with Mark Gordon , Allison Lyon Segan and John Roberts , won BAFTA Children's Award for the film Paulie in the same year.
Private James Ryan in the film Saving Private Ryan is loosely based on him. [5] Fritz married Marilyn Hartnett Batt and they had two daughters, Catherine (Cate) and Mary. [citation needed] Fritz died in 1983 in San Francisco at the age of 63. [2]
Nominator(s): Darkwarriorblake / Vote for something that matters 22:46, 14 March 2023 (UTC) [] This article is about the 1998 war film Saving Private Ryan, a highly influential film about a troop of soldiers tasked with recovering a single man and the last surviving son of the Ryan family, James Ryan, and getting him out of World War II alive.
Saving Private Ryan is a film heavy on sentimentalism and a desire to show how courageous the 'greatest generation' were - it has a tone that goes beyond telling the story of a small group of men. Some recognition of the tremendous sacrifice of Commonwealth troops and others would not have been impossible to put into the film, even if it was no ...
Courage Under Fire is a 1996 American war drama film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan. It is the second collaboration between Washington and director Zwick. The film was released in the United States on July 12, 1996, to positive reviews and grossed $100 million worldwide.