Stop-Loss

Director: Kimberly Peirce

Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Abbie Cornish, Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Victor Rasuk, Timothy Olyphant, Ciarán Hinds

(Paramount Pictures/MTV Films, 2008) Rated: R

US DVD release date: 8 July 2008 (MTV)

[28 March 2008]

by Cynthia Fuchs

PopMatters Film and TV Editor

Laying Low

In Brandon's confrontations with his own delusions, Stop-Loss focuses on unhealthy rituals of manhood and male community recalling Peirce's Boys Don't Cry.

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good film . i saw the film on millionairechats.com .

Comment by Amy — March 30, 2008 @ 1:37 am

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