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[quote=bumbumhi]Thats a good start bro. ^
But can u make it shorter
ty?[/quote]

And while you're at it write an intro and conclusion with your name on top to hand in as homework?

He literally copied and pasted wikipedia, and I'm sure you can paraphrase it. By the way, it's Stand* by Me, not stay. Don't get the title of a famous movie wrong or it will look really bad.

Thats a good start bro. ^
But can u make it shorter
ty?

In 1985, after reading a newspaper article about the death of a man named Chris Chambers, author Gordie Lachance (Richard Dreyfuss) recalls a childhood journey to find the body of a missing boy near the (fictional) town of Castle Rock, Oregon (Maine in the novella) over Labor Day Weekend in 1959. Young Gordie (Wil Wheaton) was a quiet, bookish boy with a penchant for writing and telling stories. He is rejected by his father (Marshall Bell) after the death of his football-star older brother Denny (John Cusack), who had paid more attention to Gordie than their parents did.

Gordie spends his time with three friends: Chris Chambers (River Phoenix), who is from a family of criminals and alcoholics and is usually stereotyped accordingly, even though he does not conform to the perceptions and stigmas; Teddy Duchamp (Corey Feldman), who is eccentric and physically scarred after his mentally unstable father held his ear to a stove; and Vern Tessio (Jerry O'Connell), who is overweight, timid, and often the target of bullying. Overall, all four of the boys, especially Gordie and Chris, are often the target of bullying, harassment, and theft by teenaged gang members Ace Merrill (Kiefer Sutherland) and Chris' older brother, Eyeball (Bradley Gregg).

Vern overhears his older brother, Billy (Casey Siemaszko), and his friend, Charlie Hogan (Gary Riley), talking about finding the body of Ray Brower, who was killed after being struck by a train while picking blueberries in the woods. Brower was a boy whose disappearance and subsequent police search was a big news story in Castle Rock. Gordie, Chris, Teddy, and Vern decide to embark upon a hiking journey following the local rail line to see if they can find Ray's body and become local heroes. On they day the boys are supposed to start their journey, Gordie and Chris are confronted by Ace and Eyeball, who steal Gordie's hat and threaten Chris with a lit cigarette when he insults Ace, but they are let go unharmed.

The boys set out, first encountering Milo Pressman (William Bronder) and his dog Chopper when they pause to fill their canteens from a well located in Milo's junkyard. When he confronts them for trespassing in his yard, Milo callously calls Teddy's father a "loony", causing Teddy to unleash his anger on Milo before the boys drag him away. Milo then threatens to make a phone call to their fathers for their antics, but the boys leave the junkyard anyway. They then walk along a train bridge, and Vern and Gordie are nearly run over by a passing train. At the end of the day, the boys set up camp and Gordie tells his friends a story that he made up about an obese, unpopular boy named Davie "Lard Ass" Hogan (Andy Lindberg), who gets revenge on his town for bullying him by making them vomit on each other during The Great Tri-County Pie-Eating Contest. Later on in the night, Chris reveals to Gordie his fear of being stereotyped as a criminal due to his alcoholic, lawbreaking family and becoming a failure as a result. The next morning, the boys continue by taking a short-cut through a swamp only to discover that it is infested with leeches. While hurriedly removing them from each other, Gordie briefly faints after finding one in his underwear, causing the other boys to wonder if they should go on. Gordie ends up being the decisive one and decides to continue, driven by his own personal need to see the dead body.

They locate the body, and it reminds Gordie that his father loved his brother more than him. At this point, Ace and his gang consisting of Eyeball, Vince Desjardins (Jason Oliver), Charlie, Billy, and two other hoodlums show up in their cars to take the body (and the credit for finding it). Ace gives the boys an ultimatum, but when Chris finally stands up for himself and insults him again, an incensed Ace pulls out his pocket knife, intending to murder him. Gordie comes to Chris' defense and threatens Ace with an M1911 pistol that Chris had stolen from his father. Ace, believing Gordie's warnings to be a bluff, attempts to talk him into giving him the weapon. However, when Ace comes to the realization that Gordie is serious, and that Ace and his gang are outgunned, they finally leave, but not before Ace vows to seek his revenge on the boys for their defensive actions. Gordie decides that no one will get credit for finding the dead body and reports it via an anonymous phone call to the authorities. The boys hike back to Castle Rock, say goodbye and expect to see each other the next week as seventh graders in junior high.

Gordie states that the friends drifted apart shortly thereafter. Vern got married immediately after high school, had four kids and became a forklift driver at a local lumber yard. Teddy tried to join the Army, but was denied entry because of his poor eyesight and ear injury. He eventually served a prison sentence and was now doing odd jobs around Castle Rock. Chris was able to stick it out and get by in the advanced classes with Gordie and later moved out of Castle Rock and became a lawyer. However, as revealed in the opening scene, Chris was stabbed in the throat and killed when he attempted to intervene in a fight in a fast food restaurant the week before the present day scenes took place. Gordie then finishes his memoir, and takes his son and his son's friend swimming.