The movie opens by highlighting the Normandy invasion by the U.S. military in 1944. It then follows U.S. Army Ranger Captain John H. Miller, who is played by Tom Hanks, and a squad of troops as they search for a lost paratrooper, James Francis Ryan, who is played by Matt Damon. Private Ryan is being sought in particular by the military because he is the last of his four brothers who were all enlisted that is surviving, and the military believes the right thing to do is get him home to his mother. The movie follows the squad of troops as they battle German forces against all odds in search of Private Ryan.
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