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Summary: Classic Coming of Age Film
Review: I can't say enough wonderful things about Stand By Me. It's superbly acted by everyone and has so much more meaning than just another "kids" flick. The Goonies this is not, it says so much in such a short time. It's FUNNY as hell sometimes and deeply moving other times. Wil Wheaton is great as Gordy, the sad doy eyed kid with a father who is about as sensitive as a brick wall and an imagination that could sell about as many stories as Stephen King. River Phoenix was stupendous as always, showing warmth and charm and such great talent. Corey was funny and disturbing, classic Feldman acting. Jerry O'Connell was priceless as the lovable Vern-o! "I brought the comb!" Plus we get the devishly wonderful Keifer Sutherland as the bully from hell. How could someone so hot be such an a-hole in every 80s movie?! But I love that guy, he adds the flavor to this movie. As an even added bonus we get two scenes with the always favorite John Cusask, as Gordy's deceased brother Denny. This movie has it all and I never tire of watching it. The DVD was quite awesome! I was pleasantly surprised with the wonderful features, including the really cool behind the scenes featurette, featuring of course the entire cast looking so much older. Listening to their stories was about as entertaning as the film. Great job on the dvd, we even get the Stand By Me video! :)
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Summary: #1 coming of age film
Review: I've seen STAND BY ME too many times. Now that I've gotten that off my chest, let me clarify that it doesn't mean I'll never watch it again. Because STAND BY ME is one of those films you can watch again. And again, and again...Directed by Rob Reiner (THE PRINCESS BRIDE), STAND BY ME is based on a novella by bestselling author Stephen King. Wanting to understand STAND BY ME's origins, I searched it out. THE BODY can be found in an anthology of King stories entitled DIFFERENT SEASONS. On to the movie... STAND BY ME centers on four 12 year-old boys: Gordie Lachance (Wil Wheaton), Chris Chambers (River Phoenix), Teddy Duchamp (Corey Feldman), and Vern Tessio (Jerry O'Connell). Their hometown is in Maine - Castle Rock, to be precise, and the year is 1959. Castle Rock is a small, sleepy town where not much happens. But the four pals manage to stir up mischief all on their own. Especially on their journey through the woods. They've got only one goal in mind: to find the dead body of a Castle Rock boy their age who was hit by a train. Vern overheard Chris' older brother's gang talking about how they knew where it was, how they'd be rewarded for alerting the township. River Phoenix shines throughout the movie, but not so much so that he overshadows his costars. Each cast member gives an incredibly praise-worthy performance - the sleeper hit did garner quite a bit of critical praise during the 80's. Jerry O'Connell, as Vern, is barely recognizeable. With wide blue eyes, chubby cheeks, and a constant whine, he is the typical fat kid who always gets picked on. Yet Chris, Gordie, and Teddy have taken him under their wing. The four boys genuinely and sincerely care about each other and have relationships as tight-knit as that of blood brothers. An older and more aware Gordie Lachance narrates the story with voice-overs as he has achieved his dream of being an author and wants to tell the world of the friends he shared many middle school experiences with. "I never had friends like the ones I had when I was 12," Gordie laments. "Jesus, does anyone?" STAND BY ME will always be the best film of its coming-of-age genre. Why? The boys set off on a journey with typical kid wishes: to make a profit from discovering the dead body. But they learn to rely on each other, care about each other, and emerge self-assured and more mature as a result. This film is poignant, touching, and dripping with nostalgia, as well as quite humorous. Not once does it cross the border into being overly sentiment or sappy. The adventures and misadventures of 4 boys who "come of age," so to speak, is one to be remembered throughout film history. R.I.P., River Phoenix. At 14, I was in love.
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Summary: Skin It
Review: STAND BY ME- a golden movie. It is the story told in flashback by an adult form of one of the main characters, and set in the late 50's. Four boys, Chris Chambers (played by the magnificently talented River Phoenix) Gordie Lachance (Wil Wheaton) Teddy Duchamp (Corey Feldman) and Vern tessio (Jerry O'Connel) decide to sneak off from their sleepy Oregon town to find the body of a missing boy their own age. Along the way they get through leeches, an evil tempered junkyard man and his dog, and numerous way-too-close train encounters. The film is full of all those little details, like old song tunes and show jingles, that make a movie classic.
All four boys are varying misfits, so there's the dynamic of their personal struggles as well as that of four 13 yr old boys hiking through the wilderness of Oregon. With a wonderful core cast, and a supporting cast of Kiefer Sutherland, John Cusack, and Bradley Gregg.
I remeber my brother and all his friends watching this movie when they were little, and me, even smaller, just watching quietly from a corner. The movie always stuck in my mind. I love STAND BY ME; so skin it. Deffinately check this movie out.
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Summary: Avoid Puberty at all Costs!!!!!!
Review: This movie is good, not as good as The Goonies but good none the less. You have to feel sorry for Cory Feldman though, once the balls dropped it was all over.
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Summary: The best friendly film
Review: When I was 12 ( I'm 21), I fell in love for a movie called Now and then, starring Christina Ricci, Rosie O'Donnell, Demi Moore and more...It was a coming-of-age movie. So, on the box of the VHS, it was written : The best coming-of-age since Stand by me. It made me curious about this flick, but I didn't any chances to watch it, until last May. I was working (in a Video Store), when I saw the vhs box of the movie...And when I watched it, I immediately felt in love with this beautiful movie. I really think it's the better coming-of-age movie that I've seen in my life. I just bought the DVD and woaw, again, it's a great movie. The performances of the 4 boys are remarquabe, especially Wil Wheaton and River Phoenix. I will watch this movie again and again and again. You can't be tired of Stand by me. And I don't know what to say about the end of this movie.It makes me cry each times that I see it. The story is wonderful. When I'm listening this movie, I forget all my problems. It's a film you can't miss.It's a masterpiece !
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Summary: stand by me
Review: What a movie!! I was home on leave from the Army and rented this from a Blockbuster store and fell in love with it This is a great one and another classic book to film adaptation from the work of Stephen King Great job by Rob "Meathead" Reiner on his direction of this movie The adventure that every kid dreams of is featured in this film when four teenage boys follow the railroad tracks to find a dead body of a boy hit by a train The interaction and genuine friendship between the boys is obvious on screen and the young actors are very charismatic and talented especially the late River Phoenix who died tragically in the early '90s at a nightclub in L.A of a drug overdose What a huge success he would have been if he lived One thing that I do fing kind of curious on this movie is the homosexual undertones that exist between Phoenix's character and Will Wheaton's character If you look closely you can tell it is there That is the only downside of the movie Otherwise nothing short of a classic
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Summary: STILL WAITING FOR THE BREATHING METHOD...
Review: Stand By Me was the first of three great movies made from Stephen King's collection of four novellas--Different Seasons. My favorite movie of all time, The Shawshank Redemption, was made from the story Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. It is the only movie ever made from a piece of King's fiction that transcends and is greater than the written original.
Stand By Me was the first of the three movies to be made (the other being Apt Pupil). It is a great coming of age movie in its own right. Featuring a first-class cast of child actors (oh, the wasted potential now seen in their later years breaks the heart!), this movie may not transcend the story, but it certainly delivers the goods in a way that few movies made from King's works have done (The Green Mile springs to mind, but after it, Apt Pupil, and Shawshank, the drop-off is considerable).
C.S. Lewis often spoke of Sensucht: the painful longing that itself is a joy. This movie, with its warts and all retelling a journey in the golden-hued past, powerfully evokes a feeling of sensucht. This feeling is eerily matched and accentuated while watching a young River Phoenix turn in one of his most powerful performances.
I can't help but wonder if the fourth story of Different Seasons--The Breathing Method--will ever be made into a film. Its ending may ward off the faint of heart, but anyone who has ever heard the audio recording by Frank Muller could easily see its possibilities as a movie.
I give Stand By Me my heartfelt recommendation.
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Summary: baseball
Review: this is a very good dvd to watch but it is even better when you read the story on it because the thing you see in the dvd mit not come up in the book so that is why you should plan to take the timeout and do this.
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Summary: a movie well done
Review: its an awesome movie to watch especially if you're a kidbut it also can be for older people. i like how it revolves around friendship and the virtues of growing up. i also reccomend reading the book, its a good read.
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Summary: Good classic story
Review: A wonderful, classic coming of age adventure-drama that will never get old, Stand By Me is truly a classic story of friendship that is unusual in being centered around pre-teen characters who are as enjoyable and engaging as any adults. Not to be missed. Yet another 80's classic where the young show the adults how it's done.
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