STAND BY ME Returning To Theaters For 35th Anniversary Screenings
Long before Stranger Things, Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me combined nostalgia, youth, and corpses for a classic coming-of-age story that stands the test of time. The film is celebrating it’s 35th anniverary this year which is hard for me to believe because I remember vividly seeing it in the theater. I loved it than, and I love it more as I get older.
Fathom Events is celebrating 1986 film with anniversary screenings this week at select theaters nationwide. The movie is adapted from the Stephen King novella, The Body, and is the story of four friends who set out on a two-day journey looking for a body in the woods one of them has heard his older brother talking about.
It stars Wil Wheaton as soft-spoken aspiring writer, Gordie, River Phoenix as his best friiend Chris, Corey Feldman as wild-card Teddy, and Jerry O’Connell as the frightened Vern. The characters in the movie are at a crossroads that we’re all familiar with — those last moments of childhood before we learn how unkind the grown-up world can be.
This special 35th anniversary event will also include the featurette “Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me” with Stephen King as he recalls what led him to write the stories of his childhood, how they impacted the development of the movie, and a conversation with Rob Reiner reminiscing about the casting of the four leads.
Tickets for Stand By Me are on-sale now at FathomEvents.com and participating theater box offices. To see if you can catch a screening in your area head to the Fathom Events website now.
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