Stop-Loss
112 minutes,
USA (2008), 15
Ryan Phillippe stars as an American soldier who returns to his Texas home after a tour-of-duty in Iraq. When a superior officer tells him that he must go back to Iraq, he decides to go on the run
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Stop-Loss: The title of Kimberly Peirce's Stop-Loss is a phrase liable to be new to most outside of the military. 'Stop-Loss' is a common practice whereby US soldiers who have already served a tour-of-duty are press-ganged by superior officers into returning to the fray, even though they should be heading back home to spend time with their families. Consider it like an internal draft or redraft...
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