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Saving Private Ryan(1998)
Released
1998 · FILM

Saving Private Ryan

A battle-weary paratrooper is tasked with finding and bringing home a missing soldier whose brothers have all been killed in action, leading a small band of soldiers through enemy territory in a race against time during the chaos of D-Day.

“The mission is a man.”

Directed by
Steven Spielberg, Steven Speilberg
Written by
Robert Rodat, Laurence O Toole
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
169 min
DramaWar
Streaming on
  • AMC+

Synopsis

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 964+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Michael KahnShot by Janusz KaminskiScored by John WilliamsDesigned by Thomas E SandersSound by Lisa ChinoCostumes by Joanna JohnstonStunts by Simon CraneVFX by Kim Bromley

Box Office

1998 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 6.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$481.8M

Budget$70.0M
Worldwide gross$481.8M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $216.5M — 45% of worldwide · International: $265.3M (55%)

Opening weekend: $30.6M — 14% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $49.8M — 23% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,463 theaters

Re-release box office

2019642 theaters
$774K($1.0M today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Der Soldat James Ryande
  • Salvar al soldado Ryanes
  • Il faut sauver le soldat Ryanfr
  • Salvate il soldato Ryanit

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