Free Screening Honoring Veterans
Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-winning film opens with one of the most evocative dramatizations of D-Day, the June 6, 1944 Allied invasion of Normandy. As the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) fights ashore, two brothers are killed in action; a third brother is KIA in New Guinea. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three telegrams in a single day. United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, decides to alleviate some of her grief when he sends Cpt. Miller and eight of his men to find a fourth brother, Private James Ryan (Matt Damon), and bring him back home to his mother. Spielberg’s unflinchingly realistic war film virtually redefined the genre when it was released.
“An old-fashioned war picture to rule them all – gripping, utterly uncynical, with viscerally convincing and audacious battle sequences.” — Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
directed by
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
written by
Robert Rodat
Robert Rodat
with
Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore
Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore
language
English, French, German, Czech
English, French, German, Czech
country
United States
United States