Stop-Loss is Kimberly Peirce's follow up to her award-winning film Boys Don't Cry. The script was written by Peirce and Mark Richard. The story: Back home in Texas after fighting in Iraq, a soldier refuses to return to battle despite the government mandate requiring him to do so. This is the first ever war film produced by MTV Films.
The military's "stop-loss" policy allows the U.S. government to keep calling back soldiers for multiple tours of duty in Iraq. The human consequences of this policy are explored in "Stop-Loss," the latest from Kimberly Peirce, who more