Saving Private Ryan

Directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks and Matt Damon, and based on the screenplay by Robert Rodat and Frank Darabont, Saving Private Ryan is a World War II drama set in France during and just after the D-Day Normandy Invasion. A squad of U. S. Army soldiers undertakes a mission to save one man: paratrooper James Ryan, the last survivor of a family of four brothers, all killed in action.