In The End, Its About A Kid And A Train

Stand By Me

Released in August of 1986, its a story about four friends who go on an adventure to look for a young boy that was hit by a train and end up finding out a lot about themselves along the way. The movie stars Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman and Jerry O'Connell (with voice-over by Richard Dreyfuss).

Each of the young actors shines in this film. Its truly quite amazing to see such top-notch work out of such a young cast. The credit has to go to the film's Director, Rob Reiner. He captures comedy and drama equally well in this film. The scene where Phoenix's character, Chris, breaks down while telling a story about getting in trouble at school is so well done. You really feel like its a good kid that wants to get out of the bad situation that his family name brings to him. Follow that up with the story that Wheaton's character, Gordie, tells about a pie eating contest to entertain the other boys and you can see that Reiner has all the bases covered here.

Watching this film recently, I was immediately struck by the incredible amount of curse words used by the young actors. I know that I was using the same amount at that age but I never thought about it until I heard it on film. Wow, we were foul-mouthed little punks.

Here's little clip of some of the kinder boy insults you can hear in this film. Please enjoy....and shut up.