by Ryan Fisher
Fighting for your country is truly admirable; there isn't anything more patriotic. As a 20-year-old man, I know that the nation’s recruiters are salivating over people like myself, and I'd like to believe that if I were to enlist myself to serve in the military my government would candidly return the favor with honesty and protection. But it doesn’t always work that way.
With people like myself in mind, “Boys Don’t Cry” director Kimberly Peirce set out to make "Stop Loss," a Ryan Phillippe/Joseph Gordon-Levitt drama that hits DVD this week.
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Additional reporting by Jessica Goebel
The floppy-haired boy we first came to love in "Ten Things I Hate About You" and "3rd Rock from the Sun" has long since graduated to more adult material with flicks like "Brick," "Mysterious Skin" and "The Lookout." Next year, Joseph Gordon-Levitt will try to keep the momentum going by broaching a very sensitive subject, in the family drama "Uncertainty."
"It's about a couple trying to decide whether to keep a pregnancy," Levitt explained. The story depicts two versions of the same Fourth of July in New York City, presenting alternative series of choices revolving around that thorny issue. Read more...
