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Film Story
In the late1990s, an elderly American World War II veteran visits the Normandy American Cemetery andMemorial in Normandy,France; with him are his wife, children and grandchildren. He sees aparticular grave marker and, overwhelmed, falls to his knees.
On the morning ofJune 6, 1944, American soldiers land on Omaha Beach as part of the Normandy Invasion. They suffer heavylosses in assaulting German positions defended by artillery and machine guns.Captain John H. Miller of the 2nd Ranger Battalion assembles a group to penetrate theGerman defenses, leading to a breakout from the beach. We then see a deadsoldier face down in the bloody surf; his pack is stenciled Ryan, S.
In a Washington,D.C. office, abattalion of women type death notifications; in voice-over we hear officers'condolences to families: "Our outfit has felt his loss tremendously ... He was a fine soldier ..."A clerk pulls a letter from a pile, then pages through another stack foranother letter, glancing between them. She locates a third letter at anotherdesk, then hurries to show them to a young lieutenant, who leads her across thehall to a captain. Soon the lieutenant and captain are explaining to a colonelthat three brothers from the same family—Sean, Peter, and Daniel Ryan—havebeen killed within the past week and that their mother is about to be notified.In addition a fourth brother, paratrooperPrivateFirst Class James Francis Ryan, is somewhere in Normandy.
A wordlesssequence begins with Mrs. Ryan washing dishes in the family farmhouse. A carapproaches bearing the white five-pointed star of the United States Army. Mrs.Ryan braces herself and goes to meet it. As an Army officer, then a priest,emerge from the car her legs go weak and she collapses to the porch.
General George Marshall learns of the case. After reading AbrahamLincoln's Bixby letter aloud for his staff, he orders thatJames Ryan be found and removed from harm's way.
Three days afterD-Day, Miller receives orders to find Ryan and bring him back from the front.He assembles six men from his company—T/Sgt. MikeHorvath, Privates First Class Richard Reiben and Adrian Caparzo, PrivatesStanley Mellish and Danny Jackson, medic Irwin Wade—plus T/5 TimothyUpham, a cartographer and interpreter borrowed from anotherunit. They move out to Neuville, where they meet a squad from the 101st Airborne Division. Caparzo is killedby a German sniper.
They locate aPrivate James Ryan, but he is not their man. They eventually encounter a friendof James Francis Ryan, who tells them that Ryan is defending an importantbridge in the fictional town of Ramelle.
On the way toRammelle Miller decides to neutralize a German machine gun position, despitehis men's misgivings; Wade is killed in the skirmish. Miller, at Upham'surging, declines to execute a surviving German (nicknamed "SteamboatWillie") and sets him free on condition that he surrender to the firstAllied unit he encounters. Losing confidence in Miller's leadership, Reibendeclares his intention to desert, prompting a confrontation with Horvath, whichMiller defuses by disclosing his civilian background (school teaching) aboutwhich his men had set up a betting pool. Reiben reluctantly decides to stay.
At Ramelle,Miller and the squad find a small group of paratroopers preparing to defend thebridge; one is Ryan. Miller tells Ryan about his brothers and their orders tobring him home and that two men had been lost in finding him. He is distressedat the loss of his brothers, but asks Miller to tell his mother that he intendsto stay "with the only brothers [he has] left." Miller decides tojoin his unit with the paratroopers in defense of the bridge against theimminent German attack. Miller forms ambush positions throughout the ruinedtown, preparing to attack arriving tanks with Molotov cocktails, detonationcords and "sticky bombs" made from socks filled with Composition B.
Elements of the 2nd SS Panzer Division arrive with infantry and armor.Although they inflict heavy casualties on the Germans, most of theparatroopers, along with Jackson, Mellish, and Horvath are killed. Whileattempting to blow the bridge, Miller is shot and mortally wounded by SteamboatWillie, who has rejoined the Germans. Just before a Tiger tank reaches the bridge, an American P-51 Mustang flies overhead and destroys the tank,followed by American armored units which rout the remaining Germans. Uphamsurprises a group of German soldiers as they attempt to retreat. SteamboatWillie raises his hands in surrender, believing that Upham will accept becauseof their earlier encounter. Having witnessed Miller being killed by SteamboatWillie, Upham shoots him, but lets the other Germans flee.
Reiben and Ryanare with Miller as he dies and says his last words, "James ... earn this. Earn it."
Returning to thepresent day, we learn that the veteran visiting the Normandy Memorial is Ryanand the grave he is standing at is Miller's. The elderly Ryan expresses hisappreciation for what Miller and the others did for him. He then says to hiswife: "Tell me I have led a good life. Tell me I'm a good man." Hiswife says that he is. Ryan comes to attention and salutes Miller's grave.
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