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Release Date:
28 March 2008 (USA)
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Tagline:
The bravest place to stand is by each other's side.
Plot:
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. full summary | add synopsis
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2 wins
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(113 articles)
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Oscar-talk: Best Actress contenders! Is it too early for Saoirse Ronan to win an Oscar?
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Another Forgettable Entry in the Iraq War Movie Mill
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Ryan Phillippe | ... | SSgt. Brandon King | |
| Joseph Gordon-Levitt | ... | Tommy Burgess | |
| Rob Brown | ... | Isaac 'Eyeball' Butler | |
| Channing Tatum | ... | Sgt. Steve Shriver | |
| Victor Rasuk | ... | Pvt. Rico Rodriguez | |
| Terry Quay | ... | Al 'Preacher' Colson | |
| Matthew Scott Wilcox | ... | Harvey 'Rabbit' Lankford | |
| 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 Shriver |
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Also Known As:
Untitled Kimberly Peirce Project (USA) (working title)
Ausente (Argentina) (DVD title) [es]
Stop-Loss (Italy) [it]
Thymata polemou (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
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Ausente (Argentina) (DVD title) [es]
Stop-Loss (Italy) [it]
Thymata polemou (Greece) (DVD title) [el]
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Rated R for graphic violence and pervasive language. (re-rating; originally also some strong sexuality)
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112 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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Ireland:15A |
USA:R (certificate #43629) |
Australia:MA |
Sweden:15 |
Netherlands:16 |
Argentina:16 |
Finland:K-15 |
Singapore:M18 |
South Korea:18 |
New Zealand:R16
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A scene was filmed with Maggie Siff as an assistant to Senator Orton Worrell meeting Brandon in the senator's office. The scene was deleted from the final film.
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Audio/visual unsynchronized: When 'Ryan Phillipe' follows the people who broke into his car and has a gun pointed to his head, you hear a hammer make a sound, yet the person has a Glock, which doesn't have a hammer.
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Featured in "The O'Reilly Factor: (2008-04-02)" (2008)
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Kimberly Peirce becomes one of the latest directors to try and only marginally succeed in making a compelling film about the Iraq conflict.
Peirce takes on as her subject the military's stop-loss clause, essentially a back door draft by which the military can use fine print in recruits' contracts to prevent them from getting out once their time is up. Peirce obviously feels strongly about the policy, but what should be a hard-hitting drama feels instead like a rather preachy after-school special. She coaxes a nice performance out of Ryan Phillipe, as the soldier who goes AWOL when his stop-loss clause is activated, but she doesn't fare as well with the rest of the cast. The film suffers from confusing editing, that doesn't always make it clear where characters are or how events are related to one another, and the writing at times is weak as well, with character motivations not coming across as clearly as they should.
I don't know what it is about the Iraq conflict that makes it so hard for filmmakers to make good movies about it. Maybe it will have to be over for a while before anyone can begin to approach it with any success.
Grade: B-