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After the carnage at Omaha Beach, we find out that one of the men who died on the beach, Daniel Ryan, also had two other brothers, Sean and Matthew, who die in the same week. This leaves Private James Ryan (Matt Damon) as Mrs Ryan's only living son. General Marshall (Harve Presnell), who is not down there, experiencing the bloodshed, decides that he must do the "proper" thing and sends a platoon off its course from Normandy, with the sole intent being to bring Private Ryan home alive. The platoon, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), includes his faithful right hand man, Sergeant Horvath (Tom Sizemore), the sarcastic Private Reiben (Edward Burns), terrified French/German translator Corporal Upham (Jeremy Davies), and Privates Jackson (Barry Pepper), Mellish (Adam Goldberg), Caparzo (Vin Diesel), and medic Wade (Giovanni Ribisi).
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