Film Forum

U.S., 1986
Directed by Rob Reiner
Based on Stephen King's novella The Body
With River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell
Approx. 89 min. DCP.

“In Reiner's superior slice of teen nostalgia, Dreyfuss is the now middle-aged writer, looking back at the dear dead days beyond recall when he and a group of young friends ventured into the local woods where they believed a corpse was buried. Based on an (apparently) semi-autobiographical story by Stephen King, the film covers similar territory to countless other rites-of-passage dramas. The Ben E. King theme song and all the imagery of tousled adolescents preening themselves like miniature James Deans rekindle memories of old jeans commercials, but the film is so well-observed and so energetically acted by its young cast that mawkishness is kept at bay.” – Time Out

Reviews

“A portrait of an age and a moment that its peers will recognize as an unvarnished classic.”
–  Los Angeles Times

“An absorbing, touching examination of the loss of innocence that...undeniably deserves its place in the heart of a generation.”
– Empire Magazine