Stand By Me at 40: Rob Reiner’s seminal coming-of-age saga remains a bittersweet triumph
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The late director’s sensitive and detailed adaptation of Stephen King’s novella has an authenticity that so many imitators could never replicate Coming-of-age metaphors don’t get any blunter than a group of preteen boys following a set of railroad tracks to a classmate’s dead…
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