History Film / StandByMe

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[[caption-width-right:312:''No I won't be afraid, oh I won't be afraid\\

The incredible AllStarCast featured, in addition to all of the above, Creator/JohnCusack as Gordie's older brother and Creator/RichardDreyfuss as adult Gordie in the FramingDevice.

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[[caption-width-right:300:''No I won't be afraid, oh I won't be afraid\\

''Stand by Me'' is a 1986 ComingOfAge film directed by Creator/RobReiner and based on the novella ''The Body'', from the collection ''Literature/DifferentSeasons'' by Creator/StephenKing and produced and distributed by Creator/ColumbiaPictures. Set in the fictional Castle Rock, Oregon (Maine in the original story) in 1959, the film is told through the recollections of the main character, Gordie Lachance, now a freelance writer.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In the night, the four boys hear piercing cries in the woods that might be a wildcat or some other animal....and might be Ray Brower's screaming ghost. Gordie, half in and out of sleep, sees—or thinks he sees—"something white and shapeless steal through the trees like a grotesquely ambulatory bedsheet." Given that this ''is'' adapted from Stephen King story, there's no telling what it actually was, although the movie implies it was nothing more than wolves and coyotes howling.

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** Billy Tessio is implied to be this to Vern. In their only interaction, he threatens to beat him up and Vern seems afraid of him (but to be fair, he's scared of everything).

* PrecisionFStrike: Sorta. He doesn't ACTUALLY say a swear, but the line is so spot-on that it FEELS like one of these.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Teddy Duchamp. As insensitive as he gets, he cares for his friends and his father.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Chris Chambers and Teddy Duchamp. As insensitive as they get, they do care for each other and don't leave the others behind.

* Hypocrite: In Gordie's StoryWithinAStory, the morbidly obese woman who calls Davy "Lard-Ass".

* Hypocrite: In Gordie's story within a story, the morbidly obese woman who calls Davy "Lard-Ass".

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Ace is clearly a complete amoral sociopath, the other members of his gang are just run of the mill hoodlums, bullies, and troublemakers.

** Gordie again, sick of his parents focusing so singularly on talking to his older brother at dinner that they seem fundamentally unable to hear his voice, once requested that they "pass the goddam spuds", just to see what would happen. His mother responds by [[NoSell letting addressing his brother again.]]

''Stand by Me'' is a 1986 ComingOfAge film directed by Creator/RobReiner and based on the novella ''The Body'', from the collection ''Literature/DifferentSeasons'' by Creator/StephenKing and produced and disturbed by Creator/ColumbiaPictures. Set in the fictional Castle Rock, Oregon (Maine in the original story) in 1959, the film is told through the recollections of the main character, Gordie Lachance, now a freelance writer.

''Stand by Me'' is a 1986 ComingOfAge film directed by Creator/RobReiner and based on the novella ''The Body'', from the collection ''Literature/DifferentSeasons'' by Creator/StephenKing. Set in the fictional Castle Rock, Oregon (Maine in the original story) in 1959, the film is told through the recollections of the main character, Gordie Lachance, now a freelance writer.

-->'''Teddy:''' Didn't I just say I was French?

* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Gordie and his late older brother Denny are separated by a ten-year age gap. Their relationship is portrayed realistically in the book (the age gap renders Denny "just a guy"), but in the movie Denny is painted as having been an exemplary older brother (see BigBrotherMentor above). Gordie's parents (noted in the narrative as old enough to be his grandparents) have ignored him since Denny's death.

* KarmaHoudini: Ace and his gang get no immediate comeuppance for all of the things they pull, including [[spoiler:threatening Gordie and his friends with a knife in the climax]]. Ace's threat of "we're going to get you for this" even pays off in the book. In this movie, the climax is the last time Ace and his gang are seen onscreen.

** Ace and his gang are the worst of them. They're a group of hardened delinquents who show no regard to the people they get hurt.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The "goocher" (all coins coming up Tails) is implied to have much more significance in the novella, especially considering how on the last coin toss, [[spoiler:Chris, Vern and Teddy all flip a Tails again]].

* RRatedOpening: This begins with a grown up Gordie reading a newspaper about the murder of someone in his car.

* {{Expy}}: Gordie lost a brother, grew apart from his parents because of it, and became an author, similar to [[Literature/{{IT}} Bill Denbrough]].

* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: This being the fifties, all the teens and kids smoke like chimneys with Ace and his gang naturally being the evil version. The amount of smoking is especially surprising given that this is a Rob Reiner picture.
** Handwaved by WordOfGod on the DVD commentary. The "cigarettes" were made of lettuce leaves.