Stand by Me
1986, R, 87 min.
Directed by Rob Reiner, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, Casey Siemaszko, John Cusack, Richard Dreyfuss.

This sweet, nostalgic movie is one of the best things Rob Reiner has been involved with in his career. A Stephen King novella provides the source for this reflective memory piece about youth in the Fifties. The young cast is a true knockout.

This article appears in June 2 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.