MOVIE · 2008

Stop-Loss

DramaWar113 min

Back home from Iraq, a young soldier expects to start over with his friends and family, carrying the strain of combat but believing his service is finished. Then the Army invokes the stop-loss policy and orders him back into duty, turning his homecoming into a fight over who controls his future. As he resists, the people around him are pulled into the fallout: one friend unravels under the weight of what they saw overseas, while others try to build ordinary lives that war keeps interrupting. With Ryan Phillippe and Channing Tatum among the returning soldiers, the story follows how combat keeps shaping them long after they leave the battlefield.