'Stand By Me' Turns 25

All Things Considered interviews Wil Wheaton about one of my all-time favorite movies, which came out on screen 25 years ago:

Even though Stand by Me deals with the adult themes of abuse, dysfunctional families and death, Wheaton sees the film as a love letter to childhood innocence.
"Stand by Me, it sort of talks about this time in your life that feels incredibly complicated, but as you get older you realize it's actually incredibly simple," Wheaton says. "And we get the tremendous gift of not knowing that it's never going to be like that again for the rest of our lives, so it's just pure and it's uncomplicated. And it's a time that stays with us even as we become adults."

So in the last three days, they've featured two of my favorite movies, which also happen to be two of the best movies ever made from Stephen King stories, and they both came out of the same book, Different Seasons.