The film that put Reiner and Castle Rock on the map (and - film-wise - Stephen King). And River Phoenix. So a landmark film for several reasons. Raynold Gideon and Bruce Evans adapted it.
Will Wheaton and his grown-up alter ego Richard Dreyfuss narrate an expedition to see a dead body. Apart from Phoenix, Corey Feldman makes a good impression as the slightly deranged member of the gang. (Sadly his later films are of the Z Grade variety - who did he piss off in the business?) Jerry O'Connell makes the fourth. Plus Keifer Sutherland who had been in a few things including the now-disappeared The Bay Boy (1984 Daniel Petrie). And John Cusack.
To be honest they seem too old to be talking about Donald Duck et al. But the sad epilogue still tickles the olfactory passages.
Photographed by Thomas Del Ruth, son of director Roy Del Ruth (the 1931 Maltese Falcon, Blonde Crazy, Lady Killer, Topper Returns, many musicals). Tom is of course best known to us for shooting 107 episodes of The West Wing. Robert Leighton edited and J Dennis Washington was the production designer.
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