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Best Movie Ever?: "Stand By Me"

18 April 2012 11:04 AM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

If you didn't celebrate Stand By Me's 25th anniversary last year like any proud, nostalgic, train-dodging American, I don't think we should meet. It's the definitive Stephen King adaptation, the definitive River Phoenix movie (Take that, Running on Empty!), and the only movie I can think of that is both exceedingly believable and exceedingly sappy. More important, it fulfills my checklist of qualifications for our new feature Best Movie Ever: I can watch it again and again, it's unpretentious, it's funny when it wants to be, and it's real. Ben E. King, your legacy goes on untarnished.

Stand By Me tells the story of four 12-year-old boys in the early '60s who hike for miles along railroad tracks for a chance to glimpse the dead body of one of their classmates, a missing kid who might've been hit by a train. The kids consider it an adventure -- which it is, »

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