Stand by Me is a American coming-of-age drama film [ 5 ] directed by Rob Reiner. The film's title is derived from the song of the same name by Ben E. King , which plays during the film's closing credits. Stand by Me received positive reviews upon release [ 6 ] and was a commercial success.
Rolling Stone has called Stand by Me "a staple of youthful nostalgia" and "the rare movie that necessarily gets better with time". In , writer Gordie Lachance reads a newspaper article about a fatal stabbing involving his childhood best friend, Chris Chambers. He recalls an incident from when he was 12 years old when he, Chris, 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 As a child, Gordie's parents largely ignored him as they grieved the death of their elder son, Denny.
Unlike their parents, Denny had paid attention to Gordie. Vern overhears his big brother, Billy, talking with his friend, Charlie, about finding the body.
Billy does not want to inform police because it could draw attention to a car theft he and Charlie committed. When Vern tells his friends about the body, the four boys—hoping to become local heroes—decide to look for it.
After Chris steals his father's pistol, he and Gordie run into local hoodlums "Ace" Merrill and Chris's older brother, "Eyeball.
