Saving Private Ryan (Special Limited Edition)
starring: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg
directed by: Steven Spielberg
directed by: Steven Spielberg
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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780783233536
Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Limited Edition, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
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: 888
Studio: Dreamworks Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
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Product Description:
A small band of u.S. Soldiers are sent on a mission during the tumultuous battle at normandy to find the lone survivor of four brothers in steven spielbergs brutally honest world war ii epic. Special features: cast and filmmakers bios: production notes: interactive menus: two theatrical trailers and more. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/14/2006 Starring: Tom Hanks Tom Sizemore Run time: 169 minutes Rating: R Director: Stephen Spielberg
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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
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- One of my top favorite WW II moviesImpressive. All 5/5 stars for the first 15-20 minutes of the movie and the whole story of course is ... Read More
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- The best war film everReviews for this movie are pretty much ineffectual. Everyone's seen this movie and if you haven't you ... Read More
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- A MUST SEE movieI hope that this is the closest that I ever come to combat in my life. Thank God for the men that put their ... Read More
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- A strange film in many ways.This is an interesting film but marred in all sorts of funny ways: yukky setimentality intrudes and damages ... Read More
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- A flawed gemFirst off, everything you may have heard about the opening Normandy sequence is true: this is quite simply the ... Read More
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