Stand by Me
1986 Directed by Rob Reiner
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For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.
The film's name comes from the song "Stand By Me" by Ben E. King from 1961. The song was also the theme song. This film was modeled from a novella by Stephen King called "The Body" and was the ninth filmed story from the author. The film tells the story of a group of 10-year-old friends out on their own and the trials and tribulation they are confronted with along the journey.
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Stand By Me is a very special film for me and one that I've kept very close to my heart since I first saw it as a child. Call it nostalgia or sentimentality, but I truly believe this to be the ultimate film about male childhood and a loveletter to the greatest time of my life. Much like depicted in Rob Reiner's masterpiece, I also had a ragtag group of friends from all different kinds of social backgrounds, one day frolicking in the sun and the next day drenched in drama, but mostly having a great time making the streets of our small town hell on earth for parents everywhere. School was a pain for everyone and once the bell…
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Film #20 of No Rewatch November
Wonderful film. All the kids are great, which is awesome since I usually don't like kid-actors. The film is shot really well. It's nothing spectacular but it looks good in every scene, and there was something about the framing of the shots that I really liked. It just fitted.
The musical choices were great, lots of fantastic songs and it didn't even hit me until now that the end-credits song has the same title as the movie. A perfect fit that didn't bother me.
Rob Reiner was damn solid in the 80's. Damn solid.
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It is always tricky to revisit childhood favourites after a long period of not having seen them. I was so happy to find out that Stand by Me has not only improved over the years, it also laid bare a whole new layer for me to enjoy and discover now that I'm older.
When I was a kid I enjoyed this film as an adventure filled with a good deal of fantasy. The kids win, as they should in a film like this. It was easy enough to identify with any of the kids in the group of friends. Later when I read King's short story The Body, I immediately watched it again and could appreciate how well the story…
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Installment in my Adapted April Challenge
Surprisingly, I had never seen this before. I had heard of it but never really knew anything about it; when I read the synopsis I was pretty sure that this was a popular film.
I cannot believe this is based on a Stephen King novella. I always thought that King wrote horror stories. Then again, he wrote "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption" so maybe he does write more than scary stories.
I feel like this film is a who's who of child stars. River Phoenix was absolutely superb in this film. Jerry O'Connell and Corey Feldman were okay too but Wil Wheaton, I thought, was terrible. He was awkward and couldn't really act…
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The amount of times I've watched this movie is crazy, this film will never get old. It will forever stay a classic.
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What we were then and where we are now.
I think that that's the thing King writes the best about, kids in a small town who realize they can't be kids anymore, when faced with some larger-than-life antagonist, like in the novel IT. I don't really get scared when I read Stephen King's horror, but it's his depiction of people, of life in a small town in the 60s or 70s, of how kids grow up, of how parents are either caring or aloof about their kids, of gossip, and of life in general that really touches me.
In the story The Body, King takes out all of his horror elements and sticks to the pure matter that he loves…
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if I were to make a top 20 movies, Stand by Me would fall in there. after seeing this makes me wonder how great of an actor River Phoenix could have been if hadn't of died so early. it didn't seem like he was a kid reading his lines. he had natural talent.
besides voicing Donatello in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies haha, this is probably Corey Feldman's best performances (all seriousness)
love the time period that this is set in. might just be me but it kin of reminds me of the Sandlot. just a group of friends in a small town entertaining themselves with whatever they want to do. it was a better time.
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A classic coming-of-age film. I miss River Phoenix :(
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Yeah, everyone was right. Incredible.
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What we were then and where we are now.
I think that that's the thing King writes the best about, kids in a small town who realize they can't be kids anymore, when faced with some larger-than-life antagonist, like in the novel IT. I don't really get scared when I read Stephen King's horror, but it's his depiction of people, of life in a small town in the 60s or 70s, of how kids grow up, of how parents are either caring or aloof about their kids, of gossip, and of life in general that really touches me.
In the story The Body, King takes out all of his horror elements and sticks to the pure matter that he loves…
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Film #11 of the June Challenge
A really fantastic coming of age film about a group of boys who go on a adventure to find the dead body of a missing boy. All the performances from the four young main actors are great, especially River Phoenix.
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Literally stupendous, a film for the ages. A beautiful loss of innocence tale swollen with exquisite period detail and four of the best child performances of all time. Reiner's best, a true masterpiece.
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Lately, I've been recommending MUD to anyone within earshot, and one of the first things I say is that it hearkens back to other truly great movies about adolescence like STAND BY ME and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. Today, it occurred to me that it had been a really long time since I actually watched STAND BY ME (even though I've watched it so many times throughout my life that I know it virtually frame-for-frame), so I pulled it off the ol' shelf.
Still such a great film. The junkyard, the bridge, the pie-eating contest, the deer, the leeches, the ending...all these scenes are so thoroughly etched into my mind, and I can still remember being blown away by it…
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