Stop-Loss (film)

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Stop-Loss (aka Untitled Kimberly Peirce Project)
Directed by	Kimberly Peirce
Starring	Ryan Phillippe Channing Tatum Abbie Cornish Joseph Gordon-Levitt Timothy Olyphant Rob Brown
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	2007
Language	English
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Stop-Loss (aka Untitled Kimberly Peirce Project) is Kimberly Peirce's highly anticipated follow up to her directorial success in the award-winning film Boys Don't Cry. The screenwriters of Stop-Loss are Mark Richard and Kimberly Peirce.

1 Plot Summary
2 Cast
3 Filming Locations
4 Footnotes
5 External links

[edit] Plot Summary

Based on a true story adapted for the screen by Kimberly Peirce, "Stop-Loss" centers on decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe), a soldier who makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty and is called to duty again in Iraq through the military's "stop-loss" procedure. Brandon tries to resume the life he left behind with the help and support of his loving family, and his best friend, Jared (Channing Tatum), who served with Brandon in Iraq.

Alongside their war-time buddies, they try to make peace with civilian life. Then, against Brandon’s will, under a measure called “Stop Loss,” the Army indefinitely extends his enlistment and forces him back to Iraq. This destroys Brandon’s entire world, and sends him to one of the only people he can trust: his childhood friend's fiancée, Michele (Abbie Cornish). Michele becomes Brandon’s confidante and accomplice as he races across the U.S. – a fugitive from justice in the country he fought to protect – in search of a way out of his predicament.^[1]