Parents Guide for
Stop-Loss (2008) More at IMDbPro »

A man from a back window fires an automatic rifle as the car speeds around a corner, much yelling follows and soldiers drive after the car in Hummers.

At a road block in an Iraqi city soldiers stop each car, searching the vehicles and the passengers and one soldier says, "We're waiting to get blown up," and when one car does not stop quickly enough a soldier fires warning shots in the air.

A young man is sent to the stockade after complaining about receiving orders to return to Iraq even though his contract has expired, and the young man beats up his two army escorts, steals a jeep, and goes AWOL.

A young man attacks three men who have broken into his car, one of them strikes him in the head (we see a gash and blood spurts), he beats all three of them, takes a gun away from one, and fires it beside the ear of one of them, and the three robbers lie on the ground; he kicks one, and he threatens to kill them all, retrieves the stolen items and leaves.

A man attacks a stranger.

Two young men fight.

A young man visits a VA hospital and sees a platoon friend who was wounded in Iraq: the friend has a burned face and burned eyes (he's blind), and misses his right arm and right leg at the knee (we see black stitches on his upper arm and thigh stumps); we also see a triple amputee playing pool with a young woman he wears two artificial legs and one artificial arm with a double hook pincher.

The f-word is used 74 times, while the s-word is used 30 times.

Pejoratives directed at muslims are used throughout(mostly haji)

A man falls down twice from drinking too much, a young woman orders several shots of Tequila at a bar and a friend joins her and they drink several shots, in a bar scene all of the tables are loaded with bottles and glasses of beer and several men and women drink, while on a sidewalk two men drink from cans of beer, some men and women dance together with bottles of beer in their hands, in an afternoon park scene several young men drink from open bottles and cans of beer and several young men walk out of a bar at night and one drinks from an open beer bottle. One man smokes a cigarette.