Review of Stand by Me (1986) by Pat Graham for Chicago Reader — 27 Mar 2011
Without his comic underpinnings (there's only a crude pie-eating fantasy as comic security) Reiner seems lost in his own cinematic wilderness—button-down careful, almost afraid to move. His only storytelling strategy involves crosscutting from one talking head to another, and he leaves too many literary ends dangling from the Stephen King novella on which this 1989 film is based.
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This review of Stand by Me (1986) was written by Pat Graham and published by Chicago Reader on 27 Mar 2011.
Stand by Me has generally received very positive reviews.
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