Movie
Stop-Loss
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2008-03-28
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Status
- Released
- Production
- MTV Films, Peirce Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Ryan Phillippe as Brandon King
- Abbie Cornish as Michelle
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tommy Burgess
- Channing Tatum as Steve Shriver
- Josef Sommer as Senator Orton Worrell
- Timothy Olyphant as Lieutenant Colonel Boot Miller
- Ciarán Hinds as Roy King
- Linda Emond as Ida King
- Steven Strait as Michael Colson
- Alex Frost as Shorty
- Rob Brown as Isaac 'Eyeball' Butler
- Victor Rasuk as Rico Rodriguez
Crew
- Kimberly Peirce - Director
- Mark Richard - Writer
- Kimberly Peirce - Writer
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