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Studio: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: Mar 28, 2008
Running Time: 112 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. Brandon tries to resume the life he left behind with the help and support of his loving family, and his best friend, Steve Shriver, who served with Brandon in Iraq. Alongside their war-time buddies, Brandon and Steve try to make peace with civilian life. Then, against Brandon's will, under a measure called "Stop Loss," the Army indefinitely extends Brandon's enlistment and forces him back to Iraq. This upends Brandon's entire world. The conflict into which he is thrown tests everything he believes in: the bond of family, the loyalty of friendship, the limits of love, and the value of honor.
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Lt. Col. Boot Miller
Roy King
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Tommy Burgess
Rico Rodriguez
Jeanie
Isaac "Eyeball" Butler
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PETER TRAVERS -
April 3, 2008
Here's the first major movie of the new year that touches greatness, and damn if there isn't a curse hanging over it. Stop-Loss, directed with ferocity and feeling by Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry), is up against the war raging between audiences and films about Iraq. Box-office casualties last year include Lions for Lambs, Rendition, Redacted, Grace Is Gone and the unfairly scorned In the Valley of Elah. Stop-Loss has the juice to break the jinx. The emotional battlefield on which Peirce…
When Stop-Loss finally ceases beating around the bush--no, not George W.--it's powerful, stirring and even bipartisan in a sense. Unfortunately, it takes a while to get there. Story When U.S. soldiers return home from fighting in Iraq (and obviously anywhere else not touched upon in this movie), the war doesn't necessarily end. Stop- Loss follows a trio of those soldiers--Sgt. Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe), Tommy Burgess (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Steve Shriver (Channing Tatum)--from Tikrit all… |
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