One of the greatest films of the 1980s, Rob Reiner’s Stand by Me turns 40 this month. And, just as its hero discovers while looking back on the events of a summer long past, time and tragedy have only made it burn brighter.
Based on a novella by Stephen King and sensitively adapted by Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans, Stand by Me is a film about, rather than for, kids. As with much of King’s work, the main theme is the harm that adults do to children, and the scars it leaves.
In the years since the film’s release, its cast and crew have come to all kinds of harm themselves.
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