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Aug 8, 1986 · As directed by Rob Reiner, “Stand By Me” (selected theaters) is the summer’s great gift, a compassionate, perfectly performed look at the real heart of youth.
Apr 26, 2021 · It's also been confirmed that the special screening will follow the feature with Walking The Tracks: The Summer Of Stand By Me, which is a 37 minute behind-the-scenes featurette about the...
Aug 8, 2016 · Just Kids – why Stand by Me remains a coming-of-age classic. Rob Reiner’s touching drama sees four friends say goodbye to the safety and stability of childhood.
- The Source Material Was A Little Darker
- It Was Almost Directed by Adrian Lyne
- It Was Financed by Norman Lear
- The Wil Wheaton Connection to Wagon Train
- It Could Have Starred The Two Coreys
- The Stars Really Identified with Their Characters
While it wasn’t without its coming-of-age sensibility, Stephen King’s The Bodyhad a more haunting tone to it, implying that finding the body of Ray Brower was a kind of dark turning point for the four boys. Like the movie, it ends describing the tragic murder of Chris Chambers, but goes on to detail the untimely deaths of Vern Tessio and Teddy DuCh...
British filmmaker Adrian Lyne, who’s best known for directing movies with an erotic sensibility, was initially attached to the direct Stand By Me. In the earliest stages of development, Lyne was busy finishing up his work on 9 1/2 Weeks and had promised himself a six-month vacation once that was done. That would’ve pushed production of Stand By Me ...
Just as Rob Reiner was beginning rehearsals with the principle cast, producer Norman Lear had sold his company, Embassy Communications, to Coca-Cola. The problem was that Embassy Communications was bankrolling Stand By Me, and the soft drink behemoth saw no profit potential in the movie and pulled the plug. Lear, having worked with Reiner back when...
In the movie, among the numerous pop culture references of the time, Gordie Lachance (Wil Wheaton) briefly mentions the old Western TV show Wagon Train. (“They never seem to get anywhere, they just keep on Wagon Training…”) The lore is that Wil Wheaton’s grandfather was one of the show’s stars, and they worked in a reference in to the script. Wheat...
Corey Haim and Corey Feldman were synonymous with teen movies in the 1980s. Known as ‘The Two Coreys,’ they first appeared on screen together in 1987’s The Lost Boys. It turns out, Haim had read for the part of Chris Chambers, and was offered the part the same day he was offered the title role in David Seltzer’s tragicomedy Lucas. Haim chose the ro...
In a 2011 interview with NPR, commemorating the films 25th anniversary, Wil Wheaton explained Stand By Me‘s lasting success to Rob Reiner’s casting choices, explaining that the four stars were “basically were the characters we played.”
- Christian Long
Dec 7, 2023 · Stephen King recalls how the late Norman Lear ended up saving Stand By Me from being cancelled before production.
Plot. In 1985, writer Gordie Lachance reads a newspaper article about a fatal stabbing involving his childhood best friend, Chris Chambers.
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Directed by Rob Reiner from a semi-autobiographical Stephen King story, STAND BY ME is a sentimental film that works because of its unsentimental moments--in particular, its sometimes...
