The 12 best Stephen King movie and TV adaptations – EW.com

Sometimes lost in all of those volumes of white-knuckle horror prose is the fact that King is more than just creeping dread and gotcha scares. Hes also a master of nostalgia. Rob Reiners Stand By Me may be the clearest example of the authors Proustian obsession with the smallest quotidian details of youth the recollected smells, sights, and sounds of long-ago summer nights that were only able to share with our oldest (and first) friends. But yes, theres also a dead body. Told in sun-dappled flashback, Stand By Me revolves around four childhood friends (beautifully played by River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Jerry OConnell, and Corey Feldman) who, in 1959, set off to find that dead body. But really its about male bonding, the first taste of freedom, and how the most insignificant things (a catchy pop song, a campfire story about a pie-eating contest puke-athon) can feel like the only things that matter.Chris Nashawaty

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