Stop-Loss (film)

Stop-Loss
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Kimberly Peirce
Written by	Kimberly Peirce Mark Richard
Produced by	Gregory Goodman Scott Rudin
Starring	Ryan Phillippe Abbie Cornish Channing Tatum Joseph Gordon-Levitt Ciarán Hinds Timothy Olyphant Victor Rasuk Rob Brown
Cinematography	Chris Menges
Edited by	Claire Simpson
Music by	John Powell
Production company	MTV Films
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	March 13, 2008 (2008-03-13) (South by Southwest) March 28, 2008 (2008-03-28)
Running time	112 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$25 million
Box office	$11.2 million

Stop-Loss is a 2008 American war drama film directed by Kimberly Peirce and starring Ryan Phillippe, Channing Tatum, Abbie Cornish and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as young soldiers whose experience in the Iraq War leaves them psychologically shattered. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by MTV Films. The film received mixed reviews,^[1] and earned less than half of its $25 million production budget at the box office. The title refers to the U.S. government's controversial stop-loss policy, which allows the government to extend the term of duty of soldiers who have already served their contracted number of years of service.