Peter Dinklage s Breakthrough Role in This Dramedy Remains One of His Best collider.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from collider.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
If you need some recommendations for your movie nights, then check out our picks for the three underrated movies on Paramount+ that you need to watch in April.
coming-of-agedness in this coming-of-age tale is jarring, to say the least.
Stand by Me recounts the tale of 12-year-old Gordie Lachance and the journey he and three friends embark on to find the dead body of a missing boy. For all of its youthful tomfoolery, the film was based on a Stephen King novella,
The Body, and is thus imbued with the horror master’s characteristic themes of death and grief, which become ever more oppressive as the journey moves along. The heart of this film is the “innocence lost” trope, however, instead of simply losing the innocence, it’s violently and irrevocably shattered into a million tiny pieces. But hey, there’s plenty of hijinks along the way!