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I was born a few years later after this movie lol, but i've heard that it suprised so many people because it was a Stephen King book and it wasn't a horror movie. this movie always makes me cry especially at the end when Chris Chambers dies :( i used to be obsessed with River Phoenix.
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Hey I like Stand By Me very much, I think it was a great story about boys and growing up. Some of the characters were more mature than others, which I liked, it shows four very different types of people coming together to form a great bond of friendship! A classic.
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I agree! I have always felt that this is a true coming of age film that can be embraced from generation to generation. With a superb cast and excellent writing, Stand By Me is almost unforgettable! :)
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Well, Stephen King is best known for his horror novels. But he has also written some very good non-horror stories, and some of them became movies too, and very good ones, IMHO.
Including: Misery (more suspense than horror) The Shawshank Redemption The Green Mile Hearts In Atlantis Stand By Me (from King's short story, "The Body") The Running Man (which he wrote under the pseudonym of "Richard Bachman")
And some others that I forgot to mention now.
My personal feeling is that we may as well enjoy Stephen King's work while we can. Earlier this year, it was reported that King is slowly going blind and recently announced that he will retire from writing books in a few years. This may explain why he has been involved in a lot lucrative deals for TV series and made-for-TV movies, such as the recent new NBC version of "Carrie". Perhaps he feels to get as much work and money done before total blindness sets in.
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thank u steven hw i love this movie stand by me and the outsiders are my favorite movies but to say thank because i'm a huge fan of stephen king and most people don't realize he has writen many books that are not horror to name some u didn't /different seasons witch features the body:a.k.a.stand by me and also eyes of the dragon,the girl who loved tom gorden,any way the list goes on but thank u for mentioning it most people wouldn't have
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I'm reading the Body now and it's a lot different than the movie Stand by me, i just can't picture the charachters from the book in the movie. And Gordie acts a lot different in Stand by me than he does in the book. The book is good, but Stand by me the movie is better i love that movie.
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