num_pages: 103
description: [Penguin Readers Level 6]Directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks and Matt Damon, Saving Private Ryan is a World War II drama set in France during and just after the D-Day Normandy Invasion. While vast military forces converge for one of the most decisive battles of the war, a squad of U.S. Army soldiers undertake a mission to save one man: paratrooper James Ryan, the last survivor of a family of four brothers, the others having already been killed in action. Based on the screenplay by Robert Rodat and Frank Darabont.
language: English
title: Saving Private Ryan
titlecomplete: Saving Private Ryan
genres: Historical, World War II, Media Tie In, Novels, War, School, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 1190
publisher: Pearson ESL