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Title: Stop-Loss (2008)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Ryan Phillippe | ... | Brandon King | |
| Joseph Gordon-Levitt | ... | Tommy Burgess | |
| Rob Brown | ... | Isaac 'Eyeball' Butler | |
| Channing Tatum | ... | Steve Shriver | |
| Victor Rasuk | ... | Rico Rodriguez | |
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Quay Terry | ... | Al 'Preacher' Colson |
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Matthew Scott Wilcox | ... | Harvey |
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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 | |
| Abbie Cornish | ... | Michelle | |
| Alex Frost | ... | Shorty | |
Decorated Iraq war hero Sgt. Brandon King makes a celebrated return to his small Texas hometown following his tour of duty. He tries to resume the life he left behind. Then, against Brandon's will, the Army orders him back to duty in Iraq, which upends his world. The conflict tests everything he believes in: the bond of family, the loyalty of friendship, the limits of love and the value of honor. Written by Paramount Pictures
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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.