# Stand By Me - Das Geheimnis eines Sommers (1986)

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**Original title**: *Stand by Me*
**Runtime**: 89 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama
**Directed by**: Rob Reiner
**Written by**: Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans
**Starring**: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, Casey Siemaszko

> *"If I could only have one food to eat for the rest of my life?" "That's easy. Pez. Cherry flavor Pez. No question about it."*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Castle Rock, summer, a treehouse creaks. Four boys set out to find a dead body, facing a junk man and a marsh. Rob Reiner finds coming of age in a simple journey.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, tender

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 8.1/10 (480200 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 89% · Metacritic 75/100

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