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Stop-Loss (2008)

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User Rating: 6.4/10 (1,967 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Kimberly Peirce
Writers (WGA):
Mark Richard (written by) &
Kimberly Peirce (written by)
Release Date:
28 March 2008 (USA) more view trailer
Genre:
Drama | War more
Plot:
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
I'm getting out! more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Ryan Phillippe ... SSgt. Brandon King
Abbie Cornish ... Michelle

Joseph Gordon-Levitt ... Tommy Burgess

Rob Brown ... Isaac 'Eyeball' Butler
Channing Tatum ... Steve Shriver
Victor Rasuk ... Rico Rodriguez
Terry Quay ... Al 'Preacher' Colson
Matthew Scott Wilcox ... Harvey
Connett Brewer ... Curtis (as Connett M. Brewer)

Timothy Olyphant ... Lt. Col. Boot Miller
Josef Sommer ... Senator Orton Worrell

Linda Emond ... Ida King
Ciarán Hinds ... Roy King
Mamie Gummer ... Jeanie
Alex Frost ... Shorty Shriver
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Untitled Kimberly Peirce Project (USA) (working title)
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MPAA:
Rated R for graphic violence and pervasive language. (re-rating; originally also some strong sexuality)
Runtime:
113 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital | SDDS | DTS
Certification:
USA:R (certificate #43629) | Ireland:15A
Filming Locations:
Austin, Texas, USA more
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Trivia:
The shoot in Morocco took place during Ramadan. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: On the bus in the beginning of the movie Lt. Colonel Boot tells the troops what they will NOT do while on leave. He mocks the orders he is giving out. In the real army a Lt. Colonel would never do this, much less be the person giving such orders. Those orders would be given by the 1st Sgt., especially if he said the things LTC Boot says in the movie. more
Quotes:
[from trailer]
Brandon King: I'm not going back. I'm fightin' this thing.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "The O'Reilly Factor: (2008-04-04)" (2008) more

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22 out of 35 people found the following comment useful:-
I'm getting out!, 30 March 2008
10/10
Author: Eruanion from United States

Director Kimberly Peirce ("Boys Don't Cry") brings another powerfully charged film of such raw emotion that upon later reflection of the movie I felt like I had witnessed real events.

Stop-Loss follows the fictional story of a soldier, Brandon King (Ryan Philippe), who has returned home after a tour in Iraq. His contract is up and he just about to get out when he is stop-lossed (a "fine-print" section in all soldiers' contracts that gives the President the power to extended soldier's contracts in time of war). He refuses to be shipped back to Iraq, and goes AWOL in search of his state's senator for help. What follows is his road trip to fight the stop-loss as well as showing the devastating affects his fellow soldiers (Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt) experience from the horrible war. Its' acting, directing, and writing had such a feeling of authenticity, and combined with the fact that 81,000 of our brave soldiers have already been stop-lossed since Spetember 11,2001, this film feels like a true story.

One thing that made this film succeed so well was it's director was a woman, and she was able to make a movie were you could feel and see the emotions these guys were feeling even as they would desperately try and mask them.

The acting was extraordinary from the three main soldiers, most notably Ryan Philippe who is so gritty and real in his performance that he seems like he actually is a marine. Channing Tatum gives a genuine performance, but Joseph Gordon-Levitt's is the most haunting of the trio as a soldier who fights his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with excessive amounts of booze and slowly slips into a deep hole of despair.

This films is not a propaganda piece, it simply portrays something that is going on right now. It brings up many good points, but never bashes you with a certain viewpoint but leaves it to you to decide. This is such emotionally powerful, deeply moving film, the best film I have seen since the year started, and destined to be one of my favorites from this year.

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