- Stand by Me (film) (Wikipedia)
Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Rob Reiner. Based on Stephen King’s 1982 novella The Body, with the title deriving from the song of the same name by Ben E. King, the film is set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Oregon, in 1959, and stars Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O’Connell (in his film debut), as four boys who go on a hike to find the dead body of a missing boy.
- The Body is a novella by American writer Stephen King. The Body was published in King’s 1982 collection Different Seasons and later adapted into the 1986 film Stand by Me.