Sand Castle is an American war drama film directed by Fernando Coimbra and written by Chris Roessner.
 The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Henry Cavill, Logan Marshall-Green, Tommy Flanagan, Glen Powell, Beau Knapp, and Neil Brown Jr. The film centers on Matt Ocre, a young rifleman in the United States Army, who is tasked with restoring water to a village in Iraq.
 It is based on the true events and the experience of the film's writer Roessner during the Iraq War.
 It was released on 21 April 2017 on Netflix.
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film producer, and director of motion pictures and documentaries.
 Stone won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay as writer of "Midnight Express" (1978).
 He also wrote the acclaimed gangster movie "Scarface" (1983).
 As a director, Stone achieved prominence as director/writer of the war drama "Platoon" (1986), for which Stone won the Academy Award for Best Director; the film was awarded Best Picture.
 "Platoon" was the first in a trilogy of films based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served as an infantry soldier.
 He continued the series with "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989)—for which Stone won his second Best Director Oscar—and "Heaven & Earth" (1993).
 Stone's other notable works include the Salvadoran Civil War-based drama "Salvador" (1986); the financial drama "Wall Street" (1987) and its 2010 sequel ""; the Jim Morrison biopic "The Doors" (1991); and a trilogy of films based on the American Presidency—"JFK" (1991), "Nixon" (1995) and "W." (2008).
 His latest film is "Snowden" (2016).
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.
 While it garnered mixed to positive reviews, it 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 tours of duty in combat.
Kimberly Ane Peirce (born September 8, 1967) is an American feature film director, best known for her debut feature film, "Boys Don't Cry" (1999).
 Her second feature, "Stop-Loss", was released by Paramount Pictures in 2008.
 Her most recent feature film, "Carrie", was released on October 18, 2013.
Carrie is a 2013 American supernatural horror film, directed by Kimberly Peirce, and is the third film adaptation of Stephen King's 1974 novel of the same name.
 The film was produced by Kevin Misher, with a screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen & Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.
 The film was released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Screen Gems on October 18, 2013.
 The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz as the titular Carrie White, Julianne Moore as Carrie's mother Margaret White, Judy Greer as Ms. Desjardin, Portia Doubleday as Chris Hargensen, Gabriella Wilde as Sue Snell, Ansel Elgort as Tommy Ross, and Alex Russell as Billy Nolan.
Appointment in Berlin is a 1943 American war drama film directed by Alfred E. Green and starring George Sanders, Marguerite Chapman and Onslow Stevens.
 The film's plot follows an R.A.F. officer who infiltrates himself into the German high command by broadcasting a series of pro-Nazi messages.
 The film's art direction was by Lionel Banks and Walter Holscher.
Paris After Dark is a 1943 American war drama film directed by Léonide Moguy and starring George Sanders, Philip Dorn and Brenda Marshall.
 It portrays the activities of the French resistance in occupied Paris during World War II.
 The portrayal of the resistance was modeled on the Communist-led Front National, possibly due to the influence of screenwriter Harold Buchman who was known for his left-wing views.
Matthew Ryan Phillippe ( ; born September 10, 1974) is an American actor, director, and writer.
 After appearing as Billy Douglas on the soap opera "One Life to Live", he came to fame in the late 1990s with starring roles in a string of films, including "I Know What You Did Last Summer", "Cruel Intentions", and "54".
 In the 2000s, he appeared in several films, including "Gosford Park" (2001), "Crash" (2004), and war drama "Flags of Our Fathers" (2006), "Breach" (2007), and "Stop-Loss" (2008).
 In 2010, Phillippe starred as Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Greg Marinovich in "The Bang-Bang Club".
 He stars in the lead role of Bob Lee Swagger in the USA Network thriller drama "Shooter".
Tigerland is a 2000 American war drama film directed by Joel Schumacher starring Colin Farrell in the role of Private Roland Bozz, and takes place in a training camp for soldiers to be sent to the Vietnam War.
Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Kimberly Peirce and co-written by Peirce and Andy Bienen.
 The film is a dramatization of the real-life story of Brandon Teena, an American trans man played in the film by Hilary Swank, who adopts a male identity and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska but falls victim to a brutal crime perpetrated by two male acquaintances.
 The film co-stars Chloë Sevigny as Teena's girlfriend.

Question: Stop-Loss is a 2008 American war drama film directed by Kimberly Peirce and starring which  American actor, director, and writer, born September 10, 1974?
Answer: Ryan Phillippe