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A boy (Wil Wheaton) and his three buddies set out in the summer of 1959 on a hike to find a dead body. (Learn more)

Starring: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman (View All)

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Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell in Stand By Me. (Photo: Columbia)
About Stand By Me

Starring: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman

Based on the Stephen King short story The Body, Rob Reiner's easygoing nostalgia piece is set in Castle Rock, OR, over Labor Day weekend, 1959. A quartet of boys, inseparable friends all, set out in search of a dead body that one of the boys overhears his brother talking about. The foursome consists of intellectual Gordie (Wil Wheaton), born leader Chris (River Phoenix), emotionally disturbed Teddy (Corey Feldman), and chubby hanger-on Vern (Jerry O'Connell). The boys' adventures en route to the elusive body are colored by the personal pressures brought to bear on all of them by the adult world. Richard Dreyfuss, playing the grown-up Gordie, narrates the film, while Kiefer Sutherland dominates every scene he's in as a brutish high-school bully. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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US Release Date

8/8/86

MPAA Rating

Rated R

Running Time

87 mins. (V)

Locations

  • California, USA
  • Oregon, USA

Language

  • English

Box Office Total

$46,681,853

Awards

  • Nominated for a Best Screenplay award at the 1986 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
  • Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1986 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
  • Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 1986 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
  • Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1986 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
  • Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1986 Independent Spirit Awards [Festival/Aw Awards.
  • Nominated for a Best Director award at the 1986 Directors Guild of America [Festival/A Awards.
  • Nominated for a Best Picture - Drama award at the 1986 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
  • Nominated for a Best Adapted Screenplay award at the 1986 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.

Distributor

  • Columbia Pictures
  • Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  • Sony Pictures Releasing

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