Stand By Me --great flick

[bookslinger]

Absolutely my Favorite King movie. There is a scene, almost at the end of the movie, where the kids are splitting up to go home. You hear the theme song , and just as the narrator starts to speak, well that is the universal sound of a child's heart breaking over a summer gone. I love this movie.

[arista]

Great film and great actors..enough said on that one!!

[Hartley]

Coming of age stuff . Fantastic film which I've made sure to show to my two sons who were most sceptical initially . They loved them .One of them even spent most of the summer hols trawling my DVD collection for my King movies - his faves , no brainer , the Frank Darabont ones .

[Albie]

Show Spoiler

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone? "?

My favorite Movie as well and my favorite line. If you have not read "The Body", I suggest doing so. I am in the midst of reading it for the 1st time. This line does not appear at the end of the book but almost as a throw away line in the middle of the book. I personallt don't believe that such a thing as a throw away line exists for King.

[Raoul Duke]

Even though I'm sure this has been said, Stand By Me is probably the best adaptation of any of SK's work.

[ibstella]

Ditto. One of my all time fave movies. Still have a panic attack during the great train coming scene. Just made my friend's 13 yo watch it and she loved it too

[M-O-O-N SPELLS MY NAME]

I've watched the movie probably 50 times, and it still brings a tear to my eye when they explain what happens to Chris (River Phoenix)in the end. Excellent, excellent movie, one of my all time favs! A great cast, too : Richard Dreyfuss, Keifer Sutherland, John Cusack, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Cpnnell, and River Phoenix (RIP).

BOOM-baba-BOOM-baba-BOOM-baba.....

[gniknehpets]

Hey bookslinger, that was a great line. "The universal sound of a child's heart breaking over a summer gone." We all remember that feeling, even if we can't remember what we did yesterday!

[Triilz]

Yeah, I loved this movie growing up and me and my girls (we were more like tomboys then) watched it over and over. Now all grown up, I still love it. I even let my 4 and 5 year old boys watch it and they loved it too! But maybe I shouldn't have because I caught them smoking my cigarettes and they said "Gordy and Chris were doing it and they're kids!". Totally not SK's fault. All me. i shouldn't smoke and they shouldn't have been able to get to the smokes. Huge parental mistake, but still funny as hell! PS they still beg me to watch it.

[Captn_Tripps]

This is an amazing film. I first saw it when I was 9 or 10 years old, and is probably the source for my great fear of leeches.