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Stop-Loss (2008)

R 03/28/2008 (US) Drama, War 1h 53m

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The bravest place to stand is by each other's side.

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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.

Kimberly Peirce

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Mark Richard

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Ryan Phillippe

Brandon King
Abbie Cornish

Michelle
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Tommy Burgess
Channing Tatum

Steve Shriver
Josef Sommer

Senator Orton Worrell
Timothy Olyphant

Lieutenant Colonel Boot Miller
Ciarán Hinds

Roy King
Linda Emond

Ida King
Steven Strait

Michael Colson
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Kimberley Peirce’s (Boys Don’t Cry) movie proved to be controversial in military circles. The story is about the stop-loss procedure used by the American military, a kind of small print tactic that can extend a soldiers service should their country deem it so. Sergeant Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe) returns home from the Gulf Wars with his mentally scarred pals fully expecting to get back to a domestic life without blood and brains dominating his personal landscape. Yet he is called back in for another tour of Iraq under the stop-loss procedure, something he rebels agains... read the rest.

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