Stand by Me

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Summary: Four boys trek across the county in search of a dead body...
Review: Four boys in rural Oregon trek across the county in search of a dead body. What they find is maturity, friendship, and life. They learn about how short life can be, experiencing their own near-deaths, the death of a stranger, and the death of a relative. Over three days, these four boys learn more about life than most adults do in a lifetime.

Most of the events are supposedly based on actual occurrences in the childhood of Steven King. Marvelous acting by Corey Feldman and River Phoenix. Any man who grew up in a rural area will relate to this. An equivalent movie for females is "Now and Then (1995)". I highly recommend both of these movies to everyone.

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Summary: One of my faves
Review: I first saw this movie when I was sick. Once when the movie ended, I rewound the tape and started watching it again. Retrospectively, it is a compelling story that pulls you right in the center of it. This is a boy-dominated film, but that's one of the main reason why it's so great. It reminded me so much of my childhood, a time when we were just blissfully imaginative and carefree. The four boys are expectional together.

Setting out on an adventure that makes them grow up, and I have to say, you also grow along with them. When this film ends, you're just a little bit smarter- and a little more older, because this film invokes the inner child inside you and renews your quest for youth, not to mention bringing back vivid memories of you and your friends. Highly recommended. You'll be missing out on something truly unique if you don't see it. trust me-you'll thank me later.

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Summary: Leaves you speechless...
Review: Rob Reiner is really one of our great directors. Recently, he has made some, well, to be kind, not so good films. But (along with WHMS) this man gave us Stand By Me. I thank him and other for putting together this special DVD.

When this movie came out in 1986, I was the same age as the boys in the film. I was excited to see it when my parents rented it and for some reason I'll never forget this: I was grounded the night my parents were to watch it. I was banished to my room (where I listened to the oldies station ironically). I was sad, but moved on to summer camp and life...I rented some time later and liked it. Then, for some stupid reason, I forgot about the movie.

It wasn't until the holiday season and with my new DVD player keeping me warm, that I decided to revisit this classic. Watching it (and the commentary and the really touching documentary--much better than the usual junk they slap together) touched me very deeply. This film contains moments from your life. It will move you. It captures so perfectly exactly what that time is like. It is a treasure. I can't think of many other movies or TV shows (except the Wonder Years) that really gets what it is like to be a kid of that age. There are no super smart kids here. There are stupid adults. Just real emotion. It takes it place among my favorite works. A real and true masterpiece. I thank Stephen King, Rob Reiner, Richard Dreyfuss, for their honesty, pain, and truth. .

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Summary: The Fly
Review: The best, this film is the best I have ever seen.

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Summary: Stand By Me
Review: When I saw the movie for the first time, I was a junior high school student. I felt sympathies with the theme of this movie. And I thought that it reminded me of some precious thing. Now I am a university student, I feel the same affection as I felt when I was a junior high school student by the wonderful movie. The scene of the story is on a town in the county side of the US, in which four boys spend their last summer as elementary school students. For some reasons, they make an adventure during two days to find a corpse to be famous. And they have some problems with their domestic life and their relationships with people around them.They learned many things from only two daysf adventure, and they began to grow up to be men. One of attractions of the movie is that it makes me remember that I have had similar experiences in my childhood. Atmosphere of each scenes of the movie comes home to my heart, because the music of the movie is great so it arouses our feelings and goes well with scenes. For example, the scene on their way to destination, when they draw water from a well in a timberyard, they are tensed up for they are afraid of being found by a man. I feel a sympathy with their tension, for it seems the tension every children would feel when they visit unfamiliar places. The emotion that they share with best friends is great precious thing and it makes them grow up. I think that adult pepole who spend their lives routinely will be able to go back to their starting points if they watch the movie.

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Summary: DOES JUSTICE TO THE STEPHEN KING SHORT STORY
Review: Stand By Me is based on the Stephen King short story "The Body" Stand By Me is a movie that withstood the test of time- this is a movie about friendship and the innocence of curiosity. Rob Reiner did justice to the Stephen King short story here. This cannot be said of most movies based on books. Stand By Me will take you back to your childhood. You will feel good even after the movie is over!!

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Summary: ::The BEST::
Review: I am 16 years old and "Stand By Me" is the best movie I've ever seen. It is one one of my all time favorites. I would recomend that if you haven't seen this movie yet then you should as soon as possible. Phoenix, Wheaton, Feldman, and O'Connell are great when they work together. This is the best movie of all time. Everyone should see it.

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Summary: Best movie these 4 boys ever made!!!
Review: Excellent movie! Has to be River Phoenix's finest.

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Summary: I wish there were more movies like this
Review: You have to check this one out. What a story! Each of the four friends does at least some growing up on their journey -- okay, maybe not Vern so much, but they all do at least a little. I don't want to merely recap what happens in the movie, you can find dozens of summations of the film on this page... Corey Feldman should get more praise, I think, for his portrayal of Teddy. Teddy is the wild kid in this film, whose dad was a military man who "stormed the beach at Normandy", as we hear quite often in the movie. Teddy really isn't intended to be the main character by any means, but as Kurt Vonnegut sometimes said, you really should pay attention to all the characters, because they're all human beings. Otherwise stories, whether they are books or movies, can skew the way you look at the world, if you only care about the "protagonist" in some ongoing drama in your life. Teddy is kind of a nutcase, but he seems to at least have dreams, and to try to have some integrity when it counts... I thought he was a pretty good character. Vern, played by Jerry O'Connell, is a good kid too, by his lights... It is hilarious to see chubby, timid, Vern and realize that today Jerry O'Connell is probably the hottest actor of the four -- I'm not being fair to the late River Phoenix by saying that, but you see what I mean... John Cusack, in one of his early appearances, is really warm and sympathetic here. It makes you glad he's had such a terrific career. Keifer Sutherland, not unusually for him in movies of this kind, plays the town jerk, a sort of charismatic hoodlum. I guess this must have been a sort of reunion for him and Corey Feldman of their "Lost Boys" days, because they play very similar roles in each film, even to the extent of defining their characters through their conflicts with each other. Wil Wheaton is the main character, and he is terrific. He is very convincing as the introspective kid who wonders if being introspective makes him "weird". Also, I want to say that I really enjoyed the story he tells, of the pie eating contest. Especially the way the actors play out the story -- it really looks like, and has the feel of, a gross-out revenge story being told by a twelve year old kid. Just terrific. When it comes right down to it, however, I agree with the basic gist of people's opinion here that River Phoenix stole the show with his character of Chris Chambers, the tough kid with a heart. The film carries a nice message, too, in the way Chris is shown to find the ability to rise above his poor background and eventually make something of himself in life.

Basically, you walk away from this movie feeling thoughtful, and pleasantly melancholy. I found myself full of warm memories of young friendships, and things that can only be shared between friends close enough to get down and dirty, cussing out each others mothers, and still hang out afterwards and share some Pez and root beer. Two thumbs up.

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Summary: There's Something About It
Review: Very Well made movie, There is something about it that I can sit and watch it every single day and not get tired of it... Yes there is a couple spots in it where Wil Wheaton is Terrible, But overall excellent Movie.. It takes you on a emotional rollercoaster with there adventure, and you can't help not to fall in love with the characters... I also thought that nobody other than Richard Dreyfuss could have done a better job being the Voiceover.... As you can tell i'm not a professional reviewer of films, but you get the jest of things...