Stand by Me
Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Rob Reiner. It is based on Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body, and the title derives from the song by Ben E. King. Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell star as four boys who, in 1959, go on a hike to find the dead body of a missing boy.
Plot
Writer Gordon “Gordie” Lachance reads a newspaper article about a fatal stabbing. He recalls an incident from when he was 12 years old when he, his best friend, Chris Chambers, and two other friends, Teddy Duchamp and Vern Tessio, went searching for the body of a missing boy named Ray Brower near the town of Castle Rock, Oregon, during Labor Day weekend in 1959. As a child, Gordie's parents largely ignored him due to grief over the death of his big brother, Denny.
Awards
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| author | Bruce A. Evans Raynold Gideon Stephen King |
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| award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | Oregon |
| director | Rob Reiner |
| editor | Robert Leighton |
| events | death dysfunctional family friendship male bonding mourning puberty self-discovery |
| genre | adventure comedy-drama |
| keywords | best friend big brother boys camp bully car theft castle rock discover drift apart even fight in a restaurant gun fire hike kill labor day married mentally ill newspaper article older brother phone call present day search stab stabbed to death steal struggle talk trespass vomit warn |
| musicBy | Jack Nitzsche |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay |
| producer | Andrew Scheinman Bruce A. Evans Raynold Gideon |
| productionCompany | Act III Communications |
| publisher | Columbia Pictures |
| recordedAt | California |
| theme | buddy coming-of-age high school independent teen drama |