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Film details
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Featuring
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Director
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Country
USA
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Year
1986
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Genre
Drama
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- The Body Working
Introduction
“These boys are very knowing... They’re like a pastoral support group, quick to perceive signs of trouble and lay gentle, firm hands on needy shoulders. That’s what softens everything in this movie, purifies it, makes it lyrical and synthetic.”
Pauline Kael, The New Yorker, 1986
Most Stephen King adaptations trade on thrills and chills (Carrie, The Shining, Misery), but a few adeptly transfer his nostalgic and sometimes sentimental but affecting tales of characters facing less supernatural adversity. The outstanding example is Rob Reiner’s Stand by Me.
Set in 1959, the bittersweet picaresque tale follows four well-delineated and well-cast young adolescent friends (Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman and Jerry O’Connell) who set off across country in search of the corpse of a boy their age, killed by a train. The film appealed immediately both to baby boomers approaching middle age, who saw their young selves in the film’s characters, and to their children’s generation, struck by a story of loyal friendship. It has remained popular ever since.
Stand by Me is part of a cycle of mid-1980s pals’ adventure yarns including The Goonies (1985), also with Corey Feldman. The Shawshank Redemption (1994) is the most notable non-supernatural Stephen King adaptation.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Gordie Lachance
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Chris Chambers
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Teddy Duchamp
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Vern Tessio
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Ace Merrill
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Billy Tessio
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Charlie Hogan
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Eyeball Chambers
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Vince Desjardins
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Mr Lachance
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Mrs Lachance
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Mr Quidacioluo
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Milo Pressman
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Mayor Grundy
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the writer
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Denny Lachance
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waitress
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Chopper
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mayor's wife
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Principal Wiggins
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Bob Cormier
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Lardass Hogan
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Bill Travis
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Lardass Heckler
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Lardass Heckler
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Donelley Twin
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Donelley Twin
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fat lady
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Moke
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Jack Mudgett
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Ray Brower
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Gordon's son
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his friend
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Credits
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Direction:
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Assistant Director (1st)
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Assistant Director (2nd)
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Assistant Director (Additional 2nd)
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Script Supervisor
Production:
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Production Company
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Produced by
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Produced by
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Produced by
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Production Manager
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Production Supervisor
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Production Co-ordinator
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Production Accountant
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Assistant Production Accountant
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Post-production Accountant
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Post production co-ordinator
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Production Assistant
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Production Assistant
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Production Assistant
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Production Assistant
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Production Assistant
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Production Assistant
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Production Assistant
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Assistant to Mr Nicolaides
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Production Secretary
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Production Secretary
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Personal Assistant to Mr Reiner
Casting:
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Casting
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Casting
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Casting Associate
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Extra Casting (Eugene)
Writing:
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Screenplay by
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Screenplay by
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Based upon the novella 'The Body' by
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Camera Operator
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Camera Operator
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Panaglide operator
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Camera Assistant
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Camera Assistant
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Camera Assistant
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Camera Assistant
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Gaffer
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Best Boy Gaffer
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Electrician
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Electrician
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Electrician
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Key Grip
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Best Boy Grip
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Dolly Grip Operator
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Grip
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Grip
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Grip
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Grip
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Greensman
Stills:
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Still Photographer
Special Effects:
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Special Photo Effects
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Matte Paintings
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Matte Artist
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Special Effects
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Special Effects
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Sign Writer
Editing:
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Film Editor
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Assistant Editor
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Assistant Editor
Design:
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Production Designed by
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Set Designer
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Set Decorator
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Lead Woman
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Swing Gang
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Swing Gang
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Swing Gang
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Property Master
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Assistant Props
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Construction Co-ordinator
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Construction Foreman
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Painter
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Standby Painter
Costumes:
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Costume Supervisor
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Wardrobe
Make-up:
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Make-up
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Hair
Titles:
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Titles and Opticals by
Film processing:
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Projectionist
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Projectionist
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Colour Timer
Music:
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Music by
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Music Programmed and Performed by
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Music Programmed and Performed by
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Music Supervisor
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Music Editor
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Music Editor
Sound:
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Music Recording Engineer
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Sound Mixer
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Boom
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Cable
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Re-recording by
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Re-recording Mixer
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Re-recording Mixer
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Re-recording Mixer
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Supervising Sound Editor
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Supervising Sound Editor
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Supervising Sound Editor
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Sound Editor
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Sound Editor
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Sound Editor
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Sound Editor
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Assistant Sound Editor
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Assistant Sound Editor
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Negative Cutting
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ADR Editor
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Foley Artist
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Foley Artist
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Foley Artist
Stunts:
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Stunt Co-ordinator
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
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Stunts
Consultant:
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Transportation Co-ordinator
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Transportation Captain
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Transportation Co-captain
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Craft Service
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Catering
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Catering
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Catering
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First Aid
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First Aid
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Dog Trainer
Publicity:
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Unit Publicist
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