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It's the summer of in Castlerock, Oregon and four 12 year-old boys - Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern - are fast friends. After learning of the general location of the body of a local boy who has been missing for several days, they set off into woods to see it. Along the way, they learn about themselves, the meaning of friendship and the need to stand up for what is right. I am 14 years old, and I absolutely love this movie. But don't let my age fool you. I'm not just going to sit here and talk about how hott River Pheonix was.

This movie is well rounded in my perspective. Everyone can relate to at least one of the boys in it at one time in their life. The actors are matched perfectly with who their character portrays. Corey Feldman's character Teddy is the boy who's sensitive about his dad, but tries to hide it, Jerry O' Connell's character Vern is the chubby, wussy kid, but still part of the club, Wil Wheaton's character Gordie is the sweet, intelligent friend who tells stories to the other boys and is ignored by his parents, and River Phoenix's character Chris is the boy in the neighborhood that's been labeled a bad kid and feels he'll never get out of their town, the peacemaker, and Gordie's best friend.

This movie just sucks you in as soon as you start watching it. It's not overly mushy and sad, but it's not so tough that only a sixteen year old boy could stand it. You feel for each character, no matter how mean or nice they are. My personal favorite is Chris Chambers, which i know this will probably drive you guys nuts that almost every other person does too, but River Phoenix is just so touching. The campfire scene is great, the milk money seen is great, and one of my favorites is the train scene. You can definitely see the terror in their faces.

It's funny that they all act so tough, except maybe Vern, although he tries, and they still like talking about goofy and dancing and singing along to Lollipop. You also just want to be there with them. Feel that kind of friendship that so many people long for. It's such a feel good movie, but not in the sense of a 10 year old's feel good movie. It makes you feel complete when you watch it.

It's not jam packed with action sequences or it doesn't have fluffy pink bunnies hopping around in it either. It's just one of a kind.

Stand by Me is a American coming-of-age film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell. "Stand by Me" is a song originally performed by American singer-songwriter Ben E. King and written by King, Jerry Leiber, and Mike Stoller. According to King.

Definitely worth my time and yours. They also talk about working with River Phoenix. Visit Prime Video to explore more titles. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends.

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Full Cast and Crew. Watch Now With Prime Video. After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy. Stephen King Movies at the U. In a interview with NPR , Wil Wheaton attributed the film's success to the director's casting choices:. Rob Reiner found four young boys who basically were the characters we played.

I was awkward and nerdy and shy and uncomfortable in my own skin and really, really sensitive, and River was cool and really smart and passionate and even at that age kind of like a father figure to some of us, Jerry was one of the funniest people I had ever seen in my life, either before or since, and Corey was unbelievably angry and in an incredible amount of pain and had an absolutely terrible relationship with his parents.

Feldman recalled how his home life translated into his onscreen character: He interviewed our characters. I think I was Vern that summer. Rather than start shooting right away, Reiner put the four main actors together for two weeks to play games from Viola Spolin 's Improvisation for the Theater which Reiner called "the bible" of theater games [8] and build camaraderie, which led to a real friendship between them and several one-shot takes, where the young actors hit their cues perfectly. Parts of the film were shot in Brownsville, Oregon , which stood in for the fictional town of Castle Rock.

The town was selected for its small-town s ambience. The "barf-o-rama" scene was also filmed in Brownsville.

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A local bakery supplied the pies and extra filling, which was mixed with large-curd cottage cheese to simulate the vomit. The actors did not feel a sense of danger until Reiner threatened them as follows: I told them if they weren't worried that the train was going to kill them, then they should worry that I was going to. And that's when they ran. Jack Nitzsche composed the film's musical score.

On August 8, , a soundtrack album was released containing many of the s and early s oldies songs featured in the film:. The movie's success sparked a renewed interest in Ben E. Initially a 4 pop hit in , [13] "Stand By Me" re-entered the Billboard Hot in October , eventually peaking at 9 in December of that year. According to screenwriter Raynold Gideon, The Body "sounded like either a sex film, a bodybuilding film or another Stephen King horror film. Rob came up with Stand by Me , and it ended up being the least unpopular option.

The film was a box office success in North America. Reviewing for The New York Times , Walter Goodman thought the direction was rather self-conscious, "looking constantly at his audience"; Goodman called it a "trite narrative" and that "Reiner's direction hammers in every obvious element in an obvious script.

Stephen King was very impressed with the finished result. According to a later interview with Gene Siskel , Reiner recalled that after a private early screening of the film, King excused himself for fifteen minutes to compose himself; he later returned to remark, "'That's the best film ever made out of anything I've written, which isn't saying much. But you've really captured my story. In a piece entitled "25 years of 'Stand by Me'", writer Alex Hannaford opined that "[for] anyone older than about 33, [Stand by Me] remains one of the greatest films to come out of the Eighties.

In , several writers commemorated the year anniversary of the film's release.

Rolling Stone ' s Charles Bramesco called Stand By Me "timeless," "a staple of youthful nostalgia for its deft straddling of the line between childhood and adulthood," and "the rare movie that necessarily gets better with time. Te event has attracted international participants.

An advertising mural painted for the movie production has survived.

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Dan Mangan 's song "Rows of Houses" is based on the film and takes the perspective of Gordie Lachance. In , following the success of Stand by Me , Reiner co-founded a film and television production company and named it Castle Rock Entertainment , after the fictional town in which the film is set. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Stand by Me American theatrical release poster. British Board of Film Classification.

Retrieved August 15, Retrieved 24 April Retrieved 13 April Retrieved October 8, — via YouTube. Retrieved 23 April National Public Radio Interview. Interviewed by David Greene. Retrieved August 6, The New York Times. Retrieved 21 April The blueberry pie scene gets an oral history".

Retrieved 2 May Columbia TriStar Home Video. It helps that the actors who portray the foursome - Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell and the later River Phoenix - are about as natural as they come and have seemingly strong chemistry with one another. Watching the story pan out, you truly believe these friendships are real, and for such young actors, they manage to handle the tender and emotional moments of this 90 minute film quite well.

The most notorious performance is that of Phoenix, whose budding career was tragically cut short when his life met an end eight years later at the hands of a drug overdose. While Phoenix manages to steal the show away from the lead, Wil Wheaton, it must be noted that the ensemble as a whole did an outstanding job. The film focuses strictly on these four, with minor characters popping in and out of the past and present, and if the cast wasn't so strong, the movie would have easily fallen apart at the seams.

With such a small running time, you'd think that the film is rather shallow, but such is not the case. Although more could have been expanded on possibly this film's only true flaw , the story flows naturally as you share the ups and the downs with its characters.

It's got a significant amount of nostalgia, and it also has a bittersweet edge, both for its downbeat but true to life ending and for anyone who has lost similar bonds in their lives. The last lines of the writer in the film rings truest and sums up the film nicely: A real genius film especially the storyline , that truly captures the real essence of a childhood. This film carries pretty much every emotion there is: It is a classic that every person young to old should definitely watch.

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Richard Dreyfuss, playing the grown-up Gordie, narrates the film, while Kiefer Sutherland dominates every scene he's in as a brutish high-school bully. Evans , Raynold Gideon. Wil Wheaton as The Writer. River Phoenix as Chris Chambers. Corey Feldman as Teddy Duchamp. Jerry O'Connell as Vern Tessio. Kiefer Sutherland as Ace Merrill. Richard Dreyfuss as The Writer. John Cusack as Denny Lachance. Casey Siemaszko as Billy Tessio. Gary Riley as Charlie Hogan.

Bradley Gregg as Eyeball Chambers. Jason Oliver as Vince Desjardins. Marshall Bell as Mr.

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