After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
Stand by Me trailer
- Director
- Rob Reiner
- Writers
- Stephen King, Raynold Gideon, Columbia Pictures Corporation
- Studios
- Columbia Pictures Corporation, Act III, Act III Communications
- Website
- WWW.FACEBOOK.COM
- Countries
- Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla
Cast
Upon reading of the death of one of his childhood friends, late thirty-something Gordie Lachance remembers back to an incident when he was twelve involving that friend. His story... It's just before the Labor Day weekend 1959 in his hometown of Castle Rock, Oregon, just before he is about to enter junior high. He, an insecure young man, feels more invisible at home than usual as it's five months after the tragic death of his older brother Denny, the favored son, who he loved and misses as much as anyone. His parents, who just don't understand Gordie's love of storytelling and writing as opposed to Denny's athletic pursuits, still have not gotten over their grief. Gordie spends much time with his three closest same aged friends, who attend school together. Vern Tessio is the slightly dim overweight one, that dimness largely out of naivety. Teddy Duchamp is the crazy one, whose father is also crazy albeit violently, even against Teddy. And Chris Chambers, Gordie's best friend, has in the public mindset a predetermined future as a lowlife, being just the latest lowlife in the Chambers family. Regardless, Chris acts more as a responsible father figure to Gordie in many ways than…
