Stop-Loss (2008)

Director:

Kimberly Peirce

Writers (WGA):

Mark Richard (written by) &
Kimberly Peirce (written by)

Release Date:

28 marzo 2008 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | War

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Burnt Body | Urban Warfare | Dying Man | Hallucination | Ptsd

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Stop-Loss Is Not Anti-War, It's Pro-Soldier

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Cast

Ryan Phillippe	...	SSgt. Brandon King
Abbie Cornish	...	Michelle
Joseph Gordon-Levitt	...	Tommy Burgess
Rob Brown	...	Isaac 'Eyeball' Butler
Channing Tatum	...	Steve Shriver
Victor Rasuk	...	Rico Rodriguez
Terry Quay	...	Al 'Preacher' Colson
Matthew Scott Wilcox	...	Harvey
Connett Brewer	...	Curtis (as Connett M. Brewer)
Timothy Olyphant	...	Lt. Col. Boot Miller
Josef Sommer	...	Senator Orton Worrell
Linda Emond	...	Ida King
Ciarán Hinds	...	Roy King
Mamie Gummer	...	Jeanie
Alex Frost	...	Shorty Shriver
Chandra Washington	...	Mrs. Butler
Cora Cardona	...	Theresa Rodriguez
Isreal Saldivar	...	Augustin
David Kroll	...	Pastor
Marie Mizener	...	Karen
Kasey Stevens	...	Sharon
Ricky Calmbach	...	Himself
Lee Stringer	...	Dennis
J.D. Evermore	...	Rainey
Cory Hart	...	Cowboy
Devin Moss	...	CIF Clerk
Roger Edwards	...	Clerk
Ric Maddox	...	Lieutenant One
Richard Dillard	...	Sheriff Boudreaux
David Precopia	...	Police Officer
James D. Dever	...	Captain Dever (as James Dever)
Mark Richard	...	Pastor Colson
Laurie Metcalf	...	Mrs. Colson
Steven Strait	...	Michael Colson
Jeff Gibbs	...	Receptionist
Tory Kittles	...	Josh
Margo Martindale	...	Senator's Secretary (voice)
Ben Taylor	...	Bartender
Cameron Clapp	...	Vet #1
Troy Robinson	...	Vet #2 (as Clifton 'Troy' Robinson)
Peter Gerety	...	Carlson
Weston Scott Higgins	...	NCOIC of Pallbearers
Tom Minder	...	Honor Guard NCOIC
Victor García Jr.	...	Grave Digger
Robert Farrior	...	Captain Greg MacDonald
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Peter Cornwell	...	Cash for Carz Salesman
Matthew Garth II	...	Soldier
Beth Gosnell	...	Domestic Abuse Victim
Elizabeth Ingalls	...	Sweetheart
Christian Stokes	...	Tweaker
Erik Anderson	...	Captain Urbina (uncredited)

Dirigida por
Kimberly Peirce

Créditos del guión (WGA)
Mark Richard		(written by) &
Kimberly Peirce		(written by) (as Katherine Peirce)

Producida por
Pamela Abdy	....	executive producer
Reid Carolin	....	associate producer
Gregory Goodman	....	producer
Kimberly Peirce	....	producer
Mark Roybal	....	producer
Scott Rudin	....	producer
Alli Shearmur	....	executive producer

Música original por
John Powell

Fotografía por
Chris Menges

Montaje por
Claire Simpson

Casting
Avy Kaufman

Diseño de producción por
David Wasco

Dirección artística
Peter Borck

Decorados
Sandy Reynolds-Wasco

Diseño de vestuario por
Marlene Stewart

Departamento de maquillaje
Becki Drake	....	makeup artist
David Forrest	....	department head makeup
Meredith Johns	....	makeup artist
Becky Joyce	....	hair stylist
Fred Lackey III	....	key hair stylist
Lori McCoy-Bell	....	hair department head
Deborah Patino	....	special makeup supervisor
Iván Pohárnok	....	special makeup effects artist
Don Rutherford	....	special makeup effects artist
Rick Stratton	....	tattoo artist

Dirección de producción
Michael J. Malone	....	production manager
Kiki Morris	....	post-production supervisor
Scott Puckett	....	production supervisor
Paul Springer	....	post-production manager
Scott Thaler	....	production manager: Morocco

Ayudante de dirección
Alain Aswani	....	second second assistant director: Morocco
Doug Coleman	....	second unit director
William M. Connor	....	first assistant director
Richard Diment	....	second assistant director: Morocco
Neil Lewis	....	second second assistant director
Scott R. Meyers	....	second second assistant director
Kristen Ploucha	....	second assistant director
Darin Rivetti	....	first assistant director (additional photography)

Art Department
Jille Azis	....	set decorator: Morocco
Amy Bell	....	set decoration buyer
Brad Blei	....	set dresser
Mark Lambert Bristol	....	storyboard artist
Don 'Tex' Clark	....	leadman: re-shoot
Jack Colmenero	....	set dresser
April Crump	....	set dresser
Patricia Dillon	....	draper
Patricia Dillon	....	set dresser
Gretchen Engel	....	art department coordinator
Erin Fite	....	set decoration buyer
William F. Gambill	....	stand-by painter
Juliet Guimont	....	scenic artist
Steve A. Hagberg	....	construction coordinator
James V. Kent	....	set decorator: New York
Ellen Lampl	....	graphic designer
George Lee	....	set designer
Charlie Nauman	....	props assistant
Richard 'Rocky' Nichols	....	assistant property master
Richard G. Owen	....	swing gang: re-shoots
Dennis J. Parrish	....	property master: Morocco
Jason Perrine	....	art department assistant
Victoria Ramirez	....	props assistant
Charles Seale	....	carpenter
Randy Severs	....	construction foreman: Austin crew
Michael Sexton	....	property master
Phil Shirey	....	leadman
Corissa Smith	....	scenic gang boss
Pierre Vial	....	set dresser
Alexander Vinnitski	....	product placement
Michael Wilks	....	on-set dresser
Robert R. Wonson	....	set dresser
Cher Young	....	painter

Departamento de sonido
Ron Bedrosian	....	adr mixer
Marko A. Costanzo	....	foley artist
Lee Dichter	....	sound re-recording mixer
Eugene Gearty	....	supervising sound editor
George A. Lara	....	foley mixer
Manny Leyva	....	sound utility
Danny Michael	....	sound mixer
Zekkane Mohammed	....	boom operator: Morocco Unit
Branka Mrkic	....	dialogue editor
Angela Organ	....	assistant sound editor
Karym Ronda	....	sound mixer: Morocco Unit
Jac Rubenstein	....	dialogue editor
Wyatt Sprague	....	sound effects editor
Serge Stanley	....	assistant sound editor
Tami Treadwell	....	adr recordist
Larry Wineland	....	supervising sound editor
Jerry Yuen	....	boom operator

Efectos especiales
Craig Byrom	....	special effects foreman
Everett Byrom III	....	special effects coordinator
Brandon Campbell	....	special effects technician
Stanford Gilbert	....	special effects technician
Meredith Johns	....	special effects prosthetics
Larry Odien	....	animatronic prosthetics: Deborah Petino
Bob Trevino	....	special effects technician
Dennis Yeager II	....	special effects foreman
Leslie Kolter	....	special effects crew (uncredited)

Visual Effects
Russell Barrett	....	pre-visualization
Thad Beier	....	visual effects supervisor
Thomas Dadras	....	digital effects supervisor: Hammerhead Productions
Michelle Eisenreich	....	visual effects producer: Hammerhead
Paul Ensby	....	digital color timer
Dan Levitan	....	compositor
Mamie McCall	....	animator
Daniel Mellitz	....	digital artist
Madhava Reddy	....	digital intermediate
Wilson Tang	....	digital restoration

Especialistas
Jon Braver	....	stunt actor
Mark Chavarria	....	stunt performer
Leah Coffman	....	stunt performer
Doug Coleman	....	stunt coordinator
Glenn Goldstein	....	stunt performer
Jim Henry	....	stunts
Lucinda Hinton	....	stunts
Laura King	....	stunts
Brian Machleit	....	stunts
Samantha MacIvor	....	stunt double
Samantha MacIvor	....	stunt double: Abbie Cornish
David Morizot	....	stunt coordinator
Shawn Odum	....	stunt double: Ryan Phillippe
Casey O'Neill	....	stunts
Michael Ortiz	....	stunts
Cedric Proust	....	stunt coordinator
Jimmy N. Roberts	....	stunts
Allen Robinson	....	utility stunts
Dan Schlund	....	stunt double
Jeff Schwan	....	stunts
Christian Stokes	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Andy Arnautov	....	gaffer: Morocco
Richard Beltran	....	electrician
Hans Bjerno	....	aerial director of photography
Theodore Y. Bott	....	electrician
Sarah Bowman	....	additional camera loader
Graham Bremner	....	grip
Stephen S. Campanelli	....	camera operator
Trevor Carroll-Coe	....	film loader
Trey Cartwright	....	electrician
Patrick B. Coate	....	second assistant camera: "b" camera
Bill Coe	....	first assistant camera: "a" camera
Chuck Cohen	....	additional photographer
James F. Cornick	....	best boy
Charles Coulter	....	generator operator
Matt Cowan	....	best boy rigging grip
Eric Cunningham	....	electrician
François Duhamel	....	additional still photographer
John Eschberger	....	electrician
Adam Flores	....	grip
Greg Flores	....	key grip: second unit
Jacob Fountain	....	grip
Sean P. Gilbert	....	underwater first assistant camera
Ivo Gresak	....	key grip: Czech/Morocco unit
Arien Hatch	....	second assistant camera: "b" camera, additional photography
Donald R. Howe Jr.	....	second assistant camera: "c" camera
John Janusek	....	key grip
Janet Jensen	....	electrician
Scott Koenigsberg	....	second assistant camera: New York
Tony Lopez-Cepero	....	electrician
Diego Mariscal	....	grip
Frank Masi	....	still photographer
James M. McClure	....	electrician
Bobby McMahan	....	second assistant camera
Mike Moad	....	dolly grip
David Myrick	....	lighting technician
Ster Percy	....	second company grip
Brandon Roberts	....	set lighting technician
John Savedra	....	set electrician
Justin Seyb	....	rigging electrician
Tom Shinn	....	rigging gaffer
Jaromir Simek	....	best boy
Dean M. Simmon	....	first assistant steadicam: "b" camera
Bobby Sledge	....	electrician
Louis Smith	....	second assistant camera: Morocco
Greg Travis	....	best boy rigging electric
James R. Tynes	....	gaffer
Steve Urban	....	grip
Ezra Venetos	....	grip
Sean Wright	....	grip

Casting Department
Chris Bustard	....	extras casting: Los Angeles
Letty Chavarria	....	extras casting coordinator
Thomas Gustafson	....	background casting: New York
Leeba Zakharov	....	casting assistant

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Steve Constancio	....	set costumer
Holly Davis	....	assistant costume designer
Annette Hoffman	....	set costumer
Min Soo Kim	....	costume department coordinator
Nicole Leitner	....	costume assistant
Amy Maner	....	buyer: costume department
Robin McMullan	....	costumer
Christine Orth	....	key costumer
Jennifer Schilling	....	costume production assistant
Debra Sugarman	....	second set costumer
Susan Gaedke	....	costumer (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Matthew Benns	....	digital intermediate data manager
Dana Bloder	....	digital intermediate producer
Gary Burritt	....	negative cutter
Rob Chesnutt	....	post-production assistant
Paul Ensby	....	digital color timer
Joe Gawler	....	digital intermediate colorist
Todd Kleparski	....	digital intermediate producer: London
Keith Mason	....	first assistant editor
Ryan Murphy	....	assistant editor
Jim Passon	....	color timer
Everette Webber	....	digital intermediate editor

Music Department
Jim Dunbar	....	music supervisor
Shawn Murphy	....	scoring mixer
Randall Poster	....	music supervisor
John Ashton Thomas	....	music arranger
John Ashton Thomas	....	orchestrator
Gina Zimmitti	....	music contractor

Transportation Department
Hamid Araissi	....	transportation manager
J. Armin Garza II	....	driver: camera car
Jimmy Ray Pickens	....	driver
Chris Raines	....	driver: re-shoots
John H. Stephens	....	driver
Paul E. Stroh	....	transportation coordinator
David Wang	....	military vehicles
Bonnie Yamahiro	....	driver

Otros miembros del equipo
Kyle Adahl	....	stand-in
Hassan Aridal	....	key office assistant
Jinane Ben Zaida	....	production coordinator
Géraldine Bergé	....	production assistant
Steve Bissell	....	stand-in
Michelle Brew	....	stand-in: Ida King
Jamie Buckner	....	production secretary
Victor Burgess	....	stand-in
Daniel Cabeza	....	assistant: Mr. Rudin
John Cefalu	....	location manager
Al Cerullo	....	helicopter pilot
Deborah J. Chesebro	....	additional assistant accountant
Stephen Clarke	....	production assistant: additonal photography
Caroline Connor	....	travel coordinator
John P. Crowley	....	key assistant location manager
Greg Deist	....	production assistant
James D. Dever	....	technical advisor: military
Marie Dong	....	first assistant location accountant
Sarah Dowling	....	production assistant
Hicham El Ghorfi	....	facilities: Morocco
Saida Elidrissi	....	assistant production coordinator
Jessica Franks	....	set assistant: reshoots
Robbie Friedmann	....	location manager
Vanessa Gaitan	....	production assistant
Sherry Gallarneau	....	script supervisor
Donal Geraghty	....	location accountant
Jeff Guerrero	....	production assistant
Heather Holty	....	digital laboratory project manager
Mark D. Houston	....	assistant accountant
Pamela Jaeckle	....	production coordinator
Ingrid Johanson	....	production coordinator
Vicki V. Johnson	....	key set medic
Joe F. Kastely	....	assistant: Ms. Peirce
Nathan Kelly	....	assistant: Mr. Rudin
Katherine Knox	....	production secretary
Jesse Kobayashi	....	digital laboratory project manager
Kevin Kray	....	location assistant
Stephen Light	....	assistant production coordinator
Renee Marsella	....	production assistant
Mary Beth Meadows	....	production assistant
Jennifer S. Milliman	....	production assistant
Tom Minder	....	assistant military technical advisor
Jarrette Moats	....	additional set production assistant
Glen Moorman	....	production assistant
Niamh Murphy	....	textile artist
Rusty Nye	....	location assistant
Sean Oliver	....	adr artist
Lily Pahlow	....	stand-in
Laura Pendergrass	....	assistant: Mr Goodman
Jannie Penvari	....	additional set production assistant: Los Angeles
Sara Nicole Powell	....	production assistant
Ray Prewitt	....	production assistant
Paul Rathburn	....	caterer
Jonathan Reich	....	location manager: Washington D.C.
Brett Rodriguez	....	military consultant
David M. Rodriguez	....	accountant
Brett P. Smith	....	assistant accountant
Ashleigh Tucker	....	assistant production coordinator
Michael Vasquez	....	first assistant accountant
Monica Walters	....	key assistant location manager
Danielle Wilson	....	craft service: second unit
Jimi Woods	....	location scout
Lori Wyant	....	second script supervisor
Matthew Honovic	....	assistant: Mr. Rudin (uncredited)
Rusty Nye	....	location scout (uncredited)
Kirk Worley	....	assistant location manager (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Paramount Pictures
• Scott Rudin Productions
• MTV Films
• Peirce Pictures

Distributors

• Paramount Pictures (2008) (USA) (theatrical)
• United International Pictures (UIP) (2007) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Universal Pictures International (UPI) (2007) (Netherlands) (theatrical)

Other Companies

• 1 Force  military technical advisors
• Armytrucks  military vehicles
• Chapman / Leonard Studio Equipment  cranes and dollies
• Dolby Laboratories  sound post-production
• Lockhart High School Band  special thanks
• Pivotal Post  Avid editing equipment provided by
• Varèse Sarabande  soundtrack

También conocida como:

Untitled Kimberly Peirce Project (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for graphic violence and pervasive language. (re-rating; originally also some strong sexuality)

Duración:

113 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

USA:R (certificate #43629) | Ireland:15A

Filming Locations:

Austin, Texas, USA

Company:

Paramount Pictures

Trivialidades:

The shoot in Morocco took place during Ramadan.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Sgt. King steals Steve's jeep the top is down. Sgt. King is in a hurry, yet when he shows up at his destination in the next shot, the top of the jeep is up. Jeep tops take at least 10 minuets of tedious work to put up, and it was sunny all day, so it could not have been put up due to rain.

Quotes:

Brandon King: Who wants to play lets start shootin’ people?

Movie Connections:

References "The A-Team" (1983)

Stop-Loss Is Not Anti-War, It's Pro-Soldier

What is bravery? Is it trying to do the right thing while facing death in the process? What is patriotism? Is it selflessly giving to your country your services and possibly your life to protect and idea? What is honor? Is it following through on your responsibilities to others who depend on you? In today's United States Army, these questions aren't merely hypothetical, but the basis of character. Kimberly Pierce understood this when she made her sophomore film Stop-Loss, which is extremely likely to be my favorite film of 2008.

Stop-Loss tells the story of a group of soldiers from Texas who are coming home from Iraq. Just before they see stateside, they encounter an ambush that kills three of their respected brothers. The squad leader Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe) feels responsible for the deaths. He intends to leave the service for good when he gets back along with his best friend (Channing Tatum). This is good news to Brandon's family; his father (the great Cirian Hinds) was a vet from Vietnam. This is also good news for his friend's fiancé (Abbie Cornish), whose love only shadows her loneliness.

But when Brandon turns in his gear and paperwork, he is told that he's to ship back out to Iraq on a stop-loss, which he instantly contests with his superior (Timothy Olyphant). The result has Brandon on the run as he goes AWOL to find a way out of going. He is aided by his friend's fiancé; he decides his best chance is to convince a local senator in Washington to help him. Along the way, he gets a tour of conscience. He meets the family of one of his dead men, whose brother knows about people who could get soldiers through to Canada. He also goes to see another of his comrades (Victor Russak), who was severely wounded in the conflict. And at the end, Brandon must make one of the hardest decisions that anyone will ever have to face.

Love it or hate it, this film has be one of the most unusual films dealing with war. It neither sides for the conflict in Iraq or against it, finding the argument to be beside the point. No doubt that Brandon does say something unflattering about his Commander-in-Chief in one scene, but the film makes it's bravest decision in being pro-soldier from beginning to end. We like these guys, we honor their dedication to our country and we only want them to find happiness and safety back home. But we can tell nearly from the start that coming home isn't going to be easy when tensions flare up in unpredictable ways. One of the men (played flawlessly by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) seems to need violence in order to feel normal. The film doesn't hate him for it, nor do we since we know that, in the words of another great movie, he had "a bad war".

There is something to be said about the decisions made in this film. In lesser movies, Brandon's decision would be more clear-cut depending on the filmmaker's political views. There would be some who call Brandon's plight cowardice and the film addresses this by allowing Brandon to have more than a couple of emotions. He's not afraid to fight or to die, but has a more interesting reason to resist. And the film doesn't see any easy answer in the options left to him. We see the life of another AWOL soldier up-close. There's nothing pretty about that.

A lot of the success of the film has to go to the amazing casting of the film. I have never been much of a fan for Ryan Phillippe), but he might have just converted me. This is an amazing performance of such complexity and earnestness that I was left truly amazed. Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been a rising independent superstar, completely washing away his child actor days in films that are challenging, playing parts that require his brand of smooth ferocity. This character is important even though he does little for the plot by being a tragic figure. I believe he might see his first nomination for this role. But my favorite performance may also be the most worthy of the Oscar this year: Abbie Cornish. Cornish isn't just throwing diamonds as a young woman in love with an impossible man.

Stop-Loss might just be the best military film since Platoon that deals with soldiers as individuals and not part of a strategy board. Kimberly Pierce, whose first and only other film was Boys Don't Cry, sees soldiers in a way that other filmmakers haven't (and those filmmakers are almost exclusively male, a few veterans themselves). She declares that she had documented hundreds of interviews with soldiers. This is one of the extremely rare cases that fiction proves to be the better format over documentary. In making this a fictional tale, she can tell a broader story and accompany the emotional journey of all her characters. She did this with her first film, which told the sad story of Brandon Teena. I didn't think that she could have made a better film than that. She has proved that she could and has.

All in all, I love this film and cannot recommend this to enough people. It's going to be attacked unfairly by the pro-war crowd who either feel that the film encourages wrong behaviors or weakening morale. In fact, I think that the film shows the real indomitable spirit of the fighting men with honor. But I also find that those who attack movies like these usually think that the best way to support the troops is to keep them in harms way. Stop-Loss isn't a cry to "cut and run". It's a testament that soldiers will remain honorable no matter how they come home. Something that John McCain might keep in mind