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Stand by Me

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• Drama
• Adventure

• 1986
• Rob Reiner
• 84 mins
• 15

Summary

Coming-of-age drama, based on a story by Stephen King, starring Wil Wheaton and River Phoenix. A writer looks back on his childhood in late-1950s Oregon, in particular the time when he and his friends set out to find the corpse of a boy believed to have been hit by a train.

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A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Andrew Collins

Rob Reiner's bucolic, nostalgic drama is widely agreed to be one of the most successful adaptations of a story by horror master Stephen King - in this case, a novella called The Body from his primarily non-supernatural collection of stories, Different Seasons. It's a likeable but hard-centred picaresque set in 1950s Oregon that blends the themes of childhood friendship, parental pressure and the loss of innocence into a Boy Scout-style roving adventure. The bookish Wil Wheaton leads a gang of friends (subtly played by the likes of Corey Feldman and River Phoenix) on a rural camping odyssey to find the fabled body of a missing boy. Each of the group is something of a social misfit, and their problems at home are deftly revealed and resolved against some rollicking action sequences (involving an oncoming train, a leech-infested swamp and a vicious junkyard dog) on the way to an eventual showdown with bullies.

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8.1/10

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Credits

Cast

rolenameGordie LachanceWil WheatonChris ChambersRiver PhoenixTeddy DuchampCorey FeldmanVern TessioJerry O'ConnellThe writerRichard DreyfussAce MerrillKiefer SutherlandBilly TessioCasey SiemaszkoCharlie HoganGary RileyEyeball ChambersBradley GreggVince DesjardinsJason OliverDenny LachanceJohn Cusack

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rolenameDirectorRob Reiner

Details

Theatrical distributor

Columbia-Cannon-Warner

Released on

1987-03-13

Languages

English

Guidance

violence, swearing / edited for content

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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