Movies / Stand by Me (1986) / Keywords
- 12 year old
- 1950s
- aspiring writer
- author
- baseball bat
- based on novel
- based on novella
- based on short story
- best friend
- betrayal
- blueberry pie
- boy
- boy with glasses
- bridge
- brother brother relationship
- bully
- campfire
- campfire story
- camping
- chased by a dog
- child abuse
- childhood
- childhood friend
- child protagonist
- child smoking cigarette
- child uses a gun
- cigarette behind ear
- cigarette pack rolled in sleeve
- cigarette smoking
- coming of age
- computer
- corpse
- courage
- crawling
- cult favorite
- dead body
- dead boy
- dead child
- death of brother
- decomposing body
- deformed ear
- dog
- eating contest
- eyeglasses
- fainting
- fainting boy
- famous line
- fat boy
- father son relationship
- flashback
- friend
- friendship
- friendship between boys
- funeral
- gay slur
- group vomit
- guard dog
- gun
- heroism
- hugging one's friend
- immaturity
- imperative in title
- innocence
- insanity
- insecurity
- inspiration
- jumping from height
- junkyard
- juvenile delinquency
- killed by a train
- knife
- leech
- loss of brother
- loyalty
- lunatic
- male bonding
- male tears
- memory
- moral dilemma
- mother
- mourning one's brother
- mourning one's son
- narrated by character
- no opening credits
- normandy beach
- nostalgia
- older brother
- on the road
- oregon
- outcast
- pacific northwest
- pie
- pie eating competition
- pistol
- pocket comb
- psychotic
- railroad track
- railroad trestle
- redemption
- reference to annette funicello
- reference to coca cola
- reference to disney's goofy
- reference to donald duck
- reference to hershey's chocolate
- reference to mickey mouse
- reference to mighty mouse
- reference to pluto the dog
- reference to superman
- reference to the cisco kid
- reference to the lone ranger
- scar
- small town
- song
- stephen king
- story within the story
- switchblade
- tear
- teenage boy
- teenager
- title appears in song
- title based on song
- train
- traumatic childhood
- treehouse
- troubled teen
- twin
- underage smoking
- underdog
- voice over narration
- vomit
- writer
- writing
- younger brother