<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $8 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $52.3 million </Td> </Tr> <P> Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming - of - age comedy - drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell . The film's plot is based on Stephen King's 1982 novella, The Body . Its title is derived from Ben E. King's eponymous song, which plays over the ending credits . The film tells the story of four boys in a small town in Oregon who go on a hike to find the dead body of a missing child . </P> <P> Author Gordie Lachance reads in the newspaper that his childhood friend Chris Chambers has been stabbed to death . Gordie narrates a flashback (later revealed to be a story he is writing) about a childhood incident when he and three buddies undertook a journey to find the body of a missing boy near the town of Castle Rock, Oregon, over Labor Day weekend in 1959 . </P>

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