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A man sits in his car reading a newspaper article about a man who was stabbed to death at a fast-food restaurant. He begins to tell the story of when he was 12 years old

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Gordy Lachance was playing cards in a tree house with his best friends, Chris Chambers and Teddy Duchamp, when Vern Tessio said he overheard his brother, Billy, and a friend discussing how to find the body of the recently missing child, Ray, and Vern asked them if they wanted to see the body.

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Gordy and the others decide to go look for the body, and Gordy and Chris meet up with Teddy and Vern on the train tracks.

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River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Wil Wheaton, and Jerry O’Connell in Stand by Me (1986)

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They soon arrive at a junkyard, and as Gordie is on his way back from picking up food, he sees the owner of the junkyard calling out for his dog. Gordie realizes that it is not as ferocious as he thought it was. Milo reprimands the 4 boys for making fun of his dog, and Teddy breaks down when Milo calls his father a crazy person.

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River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Wil Wheaton, and Jerry O’Connell in Stand by Me (1986)

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They spent the night in the forest and Gordy told them a story about a kid named Ladas Hogan, who was given that name because of his weight. Ladas doesn't like being made fun of for his size, forcing himself to vomit during a blueberry pie-eating competition, followed by a funny vomiting reaction.

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The next morning, Ace and his group are seen driving through the neighborhood, smoking and hitting mailboxes with baseball bats. Billy and Charlie got Ace's attention and they eventually lied about finding Ray's body. To earn his honor, Ace goes off with them.

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At the same time, Gordie and the others take a shortcut through the forest and land in a swamp infested with leeches. They strip off their clothes, and Gordie faints after realizing he's covered in leeches.

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Eventually, they returned to the tracks and found Ray's body, lying in the bushes.

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Just then, Ace and the others show up and ask the boys to leave so they can take the bodies. Then Goldie shoots into the air and he threatens Ace so Ace left. Gordy announces that no one will be honored for finding Ray, because they will report this via an anonymous phone call.

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River Phoenix, Kiefer Sutherland, Bradley Gregg, and Gary Riley in Stand by Me (1986)

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They returned to the town, and Goldie says that after their journey, Vern and Teddy became distant. Vern married after high school, and Teddy tried to join the army but was rejected for medical reasons, and he ended up in prison labor. Chris manages to stick it out in school with Gordy and goes to college to become a lawyer. However, he was killed by a stabbing while trying to stop a fight at a fast food restaurant, which is the same article Goldie reads at the beginning of the movie.

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Gordie ends the movie after finishing a book of memoirs about his childhood and leaves to take his son to play.