![]() ![]() He ended up serving jail time and working odd jobs. Teddy tried getting into the Army but his damaged ear and poor eyesight disqualified him. Vern married after high school, had four children, and became a forklift operator. He notes that Vern and Teddy separated from him and Chris in junior high. They walk back to Castle Rock and part ways.īack in the present day, Gordie is finishing a memoir of the experience. The boys decide that exploiting Brower's death would be wrong and instead report it via an anonymous phone call. Ace demands the weapon, but Gordie refuses while insulting and threatening him. Gordie gets the gun, fires a warning shot, and stands beside Chris while aiming the gun at Ace. When Chris refuses to back down, Ace draws a switchblade. Chris comforts Gordie and asserts that his father simply does not know him.Īce and his gang arrive to claim the body and threaten to hurt the boys if they stay. The discovery traumatizes Gordie, who asks Chris why Denny had to die and cries about his father hating him. After more hiking, the boys locate the body. Gordie faints after finding one in his underwear. The next day, the boys wade across a swamp, discovering it filled with leeches. Devastated by the teacher's betrayal, Chris breaks down and cries. He admits to stealing school milk money and says he confessed to a teacher, yet was still suspended as the teacher kept quiet and pocketed the money. That night, Chris complains to Gordie that he hates being associated with his family's reputation. Seeking payback, he downs a bottle of castor oil before entering a pie-eating contest and throws up deliberately, inducing mass vomiting among everyone there. In the evening, as the boys camp, Gordie tells a fictional story he created about "David 'Lard-Ass' Hogan", an obese boy who is constantly bullied. While crossing a railroad bridge, Gordie and Vern narrowly avoid being killed by an approaching train by jumping off the tracks. The four continue their hike, and Chris encourages Gordie to fulfil his potential as a writer despite his father's disapproval. ![]() ![]() An enraged Teddy tries to attack Milo but the other boys restrain him. Once they escape over a fence, Milo calls Teddy's mentally ill veteran father a "loony" and refers to how he almost burned Teddy's ear off. ![]() After stopping at a junkyard for water, they are caught trespassing by owner Milo Pressman and his dog, Chopper. Ace threatens Chris with a lit cigarette and steals Gordie's Yankees cap, which was a gift from Denny. After Chris steals his father's pistol, he and Gordie run into local hoodlums "Ace" Merrill and Chris's older brother, "Eyeball". When Vern tells his friends about the body, the four boys-hoping to become local heroes-decide to look for it. Billy does not want to inform police because it could draw attention to a car theft he and Charlie committed. Vern overhears his big brother, Billy, talking with his friend, Charlie, about finding the body. Unlike their parents, Denny paid more attention to Gordie. As a child, Gordie's parents largely ignored him as they grieved the death of their elder son, Denny. He recalls an incident from when he was 12 years old when he, his best friend Chris Chambers, and two other friends, Teddy Duchamp and Vern Tessio, went searching for the body of a missing boy named Ray Brower near the town of Castle Rock, Oregon, during Labor Day weekend in 1959. In 1985, writer Gordon "Gordie" Lachance reads a newspaper article about a fatal stabbing. It is considered by many to be one of the most influential films of the 1980s, as well as one of the greatest films of all time. Stand by Me received very positive reviews upon release and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and for two Golden Globe Awards: one for Best Drama Motion Picture, and one for Best Director. King, the film is set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Oregon, in 1959, and stars Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell (in his film debut), as four boys who go on a hike to find the dead body of a missing boy. Based on Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body, with the title deriving from the song of the same name by Ben E. Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Rob Reiner. ![]()
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