Saving Private Ryan: Widescreen: Special Limited Edition
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UPC: 667068-443325 (DVD)
Region Coding: Region 1
Production Year: 1998
Rating: R (Restricted)
Intense Prolonged Realistically Graphic Sequences of War Violence, and for Language
Running Time: 169 min.
DVD Release: 11/2/1999
Case Type: Keep Case
Video Formats: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1
Disc Formats: Single Sided, Dual Layered
SRP: $34.99
Internationally acclaimed by critics and audiences alike, Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan is an unforgettable film achievement that has had profound and lasting impact throughout the world. Winner of five Academy Awards® including Best Director, the film also captured Oscars® for Cinematography, Film Editing, Sound and Sound Effects Editing. More than 70 critics (including those at Time magazine, USA Today, The New York Times and Entertainment Weekly) and critics' groups in New York, Chicago, Dallas-Ft. Worth and Great Britain named the film Best Picture of the Year, while the Los Angeles, Toronto and Broadcast Film Critics honored it with both Best Picture and Best Director awards. In addition, Spielberg received his third Directors Guild of America Award, the American Legion "The Spirit of Normandy" Award, a USO Merit Award from the USO of Metropolitan Washington, as well as the highest civilian public service award from the Department of the Army. Selected for more than 160 Top Ten lists, Saving Private Ryan's other honors include Golden Globes for Best Picture (Drama) and Best Director, the Producers Guild of America Award and ten nominations from the British Academy Film Awards. Saving Private Ryan was the top-grossing motion picture of 1998.

Seen through the eyes of a squad of American soldiers, the story begins with World War II's historic D-Day invasion, then moves beyond the beach as the men embark on a dangerous special mission. Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) must take his men behind enemy lines to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat. Faced with impossible odds, the men question their orders. Why are eight men risking their lives to save just one? Surrounded by the brutal realities of war, each man searches for his own answer – and the strength to triumph over an uncertain future with honor, decency and courage.

Genres
War
Drama
Action

Studios
DreamWorks Pictures
Paramount Pictures
Amblin Entertainment
Media Companies: DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Features
Scene Access
Feature Trailers
Featurettes
Production Notes
Subtitles
English
Audio Tracks
English Dolby Digital 5.1
English Dolby Digital Dolby Surround
Cast
Tom Hanks as Captain Miller
Tom Sizemore as Sergeant Horvath
Edward Burns as Private Reiben
Barry Pepper as Private Jackson
Adam Goldberg as Private Mellish
Vin Diesel as Private Caparzo
Giovanni Ribisi as T/4 Medic Wade
Jeremy Davies as Corporal Upham
Matt Damon as Private Ryan
Ted Danson as Captain Hamill
Paul Giamatti as Sergeant Hill
Dennis Farina as Lieutenant Colonel Anderson
Joerg Stadler as Steamboat Willie
Maximilian Martini as Corporal Henderson
Dylan Bruno as Toynbe
Daniel Cerqueira as Weller
Demetri Goritsas as Parker
Ian Porter as Trask
Gary Sefton as Rice
Julian Spencer as Garrity
Steve Griffin as Wilson
William Marsh as Lyle
Marc Cass as Fallon
Markus Napier as Major Hoess

Ramelle Paratroopers
Neil Finnighan
Peter Miles


Paul Garcia as Field HQ Major
Seamus McQuade as Field HQ Aide
Ronald Longridge as Coxswain
Adam Shaw as Delancey
Rolf Saxon as Lieutenant Briggs
Corey Johnson as Radioman

Soldiers on the Beach
Loclann Aiken
John Barnett
MacLean Burke
Victor Burke
Aiden Condron
Paschal Friel
Shane Hagan
Paul Hickey
Shane Johnson
Laird MacIntosh
Brian Maynard
Martin McDougall
Mark Phillips
Lee Rosen
Andrew Scott
Matthew Sharp
Vincent Walsh
Grahame Wood


John Sharian as Corporal
Glenn Wrage as Boyle
Crofton Hardester as Senior Medical Officer
Martin Hub as Czech Wermacht Soldier
Raph Taylor as Goldman
Nigel Whitmey as Private Boyd
Sam Ellis as Private Hastings
Erich Redman as German #1
Tilo Keiner as German #2
Stephan Grothgar as German #3/Voice on Bullhorn
Stephan Cornicard as Jean
Michelle Evans as Jean's Wife
Martin Beaton as Jean's Son
Anna Maguire as Jean's Daughter
Nathan Fillion as Minnesota Ryan
Leland Orser as Lieutenant DeWindt
Michael Mantas as Paratrooper Lieutenant
David Vegh as Paratrooper Oliver
Ryan Hurst as Paratrooper Michaelson
Nick Brooks as Paratrooper Joe
Sam Scudder as Paratrooper #1
John Walters as Old French Man
Dorothy Grumbar as Old French Woman
James Innes-Smith as MP Lieutenant
Harve Presnell as General Marshall

War Department Colonels
Dale Dye
Bryan Cranston


David Wohl as War Department Captain
Eric Loren as War Department Lieutenant
Valerie Colgan as War Department Clerk
Amanda Boxer as Mrs. Margaret Ryan
Harrison Young as Ryan as Old Man
Kathleen Byron as Old Mrs. Ryan
Rob Freeman as Ryan's Son
Thomas Gizbert as Ryan's Grandson
Linda Carol as Nurse (uncredited)
John de Lancie as Letter Reader (uncredited, voice)
James Embree as German Paratrooper (uncredited)
Nina Muschallik as Ryan's Granddaughter (uncredited)
Crew
Direction:
Steven Spielberg: Director
Writing:
Robert Rodat: Writer
Production:
Steven Spielberg: Producer
Ian Bryce: Producer
Mark Gordon: Producer
Gary Levinsohn: Producer
Cinematography:
Janusz Kaminski: Director of Photography
Film Editing:
Michael Kahn: Film Editor
Music:
John Williams: Composer
Sound:
Gary Rydstrom: Sound Designer
Ronald Judkins: Production Sound Mixer
Richard Hymns: Supervising Sound Editor
Gary Rydstrom: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Gary Summers: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Andy Nelson: Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Art:
Tom Sanders: Production Designer
Joanna Johnston: Costume Designer
Neil Corbould: Visual Effects
Daniel T. Dorrance: Art Director
Ricky Eyres: Art Director
Tom Brown: Art Director
Chris Seagers: Art Director
Alan Tomkins: Art Director
Pam Wise: Costume Designer
Lois Burwell: Make-up Artist
Daniel C. Striepeke: Make-up Artist
Sian Grigg: Make-up Artist
Catherine Heys: Make-up Artist
Special Visual Effects by Industrial Light & Magic
Stefen Fangmeier: Visual Effects