This is a movie that I have and will revisit until the day I die. My first time watching gave me a weird feeling of relating to my father, because he was the same age as the main characters during the film. If I want to go deep, I can say the train tracks represent the path of life, searching for something, but finding more along the way. Confronting obstacles and eventually having to choose your own path. It also encapsulates that feeling of going into the unknown, high school, college, marriage, parenthood, life. Still never forgetting the false sense of innocence of childhood. This is a movie that will forever be there, like a friend, family member or journal.

Yes, I think pre teenagers should see this movie. It is rated R because there's about a dozen F words and more cursing but it is about 12 year old boys! I have seen this over a dozen times(it was my favorite movie for a couple years)and I love it each time! I first saw this when I was 15 because I sheltered but any preteener alive should see it!It's funny, sad, and touching all at once. If you love this movie, see some other of the director's movies, like The Princess Bride, Misery, A Few Good Men, When Harry Met Sally, etc.

Stand By Me is a brilliant film. This isn't because the "direction is great" or because "the soundtrack sounds is nostalgic", its because it does something very few films can, and that is to capture the transitional period from child to teenager. It is brutally honest and at times even too personal. This is shown brilliantly at the end of the movie when its protagonist, Gordie Lachance, now a man with two kids and a successful career as a writer, typing these exact words into his computer: "Do we really ever have friends as good as the ones when we were twelve?". That one line left a massive gulp in my throat for an hour the film ended, showing this really is one of the best coming-of-age films there is (and probably ever will be).What the film does exceptionally well is changing your emotions within the space of 85 great minutes. At the start of the film we laugh and giggle thinking "Hey, I was once like that", and at the end, this time now with a few tears down our eyes we say again "Hey, I was one like that".Although at times it is a little too sentimental and nostalgic, I don't have anything negative to say about Stand By Me. Many critics would probably argue the film is too short and could be a lot longer but yet, childhood is exactly the same and the film embraces that perfectly.

This movie is really beautiful and is really a timeless masterpiece. Stephen King is known for having really interesting and developed characters in his novels and I think this is one of the best adaptations of one of his book that has ever been made.It basically tells us the story of a group of four kids that start a journey looking for a dead body of a kid that is somewhere around the woods. But this is just the surface of the story. In fact is a story about the childhood, the friends and the innocence. Is a story that we can relate to easily, because we all have been childs at some moment and we had very good time back then, just playing with our friends, with no bigger worries than what kind of animal is Goofy, or what food would you choose if you could just pick one in the world.The four kids are so great and the actors were perfect in the roles, like you really feel their friendship, their connection, their support to each other, but also you can see yourself grinning from the jokes they make, because they take you back to those moments with your friends in the past. Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Conell are really great in the movie and they provide most of the comic moments. But the true starts in here are Wil Wheaton and specially river Phoenix. They both have some very emotional scenes with each other that brought a tear to my eye more than I expected.This movie has one of the most iconic shots in film history. The kids walking down the train tracks just singing a song with no worries at all. Some of the shots were stunning and really beautiful to look at and the movie has a really great soundtrack full of great hits from that time.This is a movie that I think everybody could enjoy. I think this is in a more personal way but this movie touched me and made feel a bit sad and nostalgic about those lost moments in the past, but also made me happy because I was lucky to live that and to have really great friends. And I think I have never had any friends like the ones I had when I was twelve. But Jesus, who does?