Stand By Me- the greatest movie...ever

Stand by Me was an instant favorite as soon as I had finished the film. It takes place in the small town of Castle Rock, Oregon. Four buddies overhear their older brother talking about a dead body who is the same age as them and they decide that they want to go find him. The four friends are all very different from each other; Gordie is the brains of the group, though he isn’t nerdy and is a great story teller. His best friend, Chris, comes from a bad family and everyone thinks he will turn out bad. Teddy is a nut with a partially burned off ear because his “loony” father put it to a stove. Vern is the fat kid that they like to pick on and like Teddy, is a comic relief. They have to travel by foot along the train tracks for about a day just to find the body. They experience a lot throughout the movie that make for a funny, yet very serious movie. In one scene they go to the infamous junkyard that is home to “Chopper,” who is known to “sick balls.” It turns out that he is a harmless golden retriever who has probably never harmed anyone. The most intense part of the movie is when they travel off the tracks and go through the woods and end up going through a pond that is filled with leeches. They get out of the water nervous and once everyone had gotten the leeches off themselves Gordie realized there is one more clinging to his skinny body. Making for one the most intense scenes I have ever scene, pulls the leech off his family jewels. Now every guy would want to kill themselves if this were to happen, but Gordie pulls the bloodied leech off and faints. I believe this is the climax off the movie because the mood of the group goes way down and the comedy is no longer present like it was earlier. When they arrive at the body Chris’s brother and his friends show up wanting the fame that comes along with finding the missing body. In the end no one ends up with the body and the boys go home and the movie pretty much ends. After the leech scene, the movie’s speed and comedy goes down hill, but this does not suggest that the movie goes down hill. It ends sadly, we find out the Chris is stabbed in the throat, but it does not take away from the greatness of the movie. I give “Stand by Me” five out of five stars.