Stand by Me actor Kiefer Sutherland explains how the movie’s title came about from him and one of his late co-stars. The 1986 movie is about a group of middle-school-aged boys looking for a missing body in the woods. The story is inspired by Stephen King's own childhood, which was written into the 1982 novel, The Body. Starring Sutherland, River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O’Connell, the film remains a timeless, emotional classic today.
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