STAND BY ME

STAND BY ME

Summer in Castle Rock, an idyl­lic small town in the US sta­te of Oregon. For days, Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern have been fol­lo­wing radio reports from their tree­house about a boy who never retur­ned from picking blueber­ries. They say he was run over by a train and his body is lying some­whe­re by the tracks. Vern and his fri­ends ima­gi­ne how exci­ting it would be to find the dead boy. Driven by the desi­re to be cele­bra­ted as heroes, they set off on a grue­ling, adven­tur­ous trek through Oregon’s moun­ta­ins. What beg­ins as an exci­ting adven­ture turns into a jour­ney that will shape the fri­end­ship of the four boys forever. 

Stand by Me. US 1986. D: Rob Reiner. SC: Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon. 89 min. Feature film. Original ver­si­on with German sub­tit­les. FSK 6. Recommended from age 11.