The film is narrated by an adult Gordie LaChance, known as "The Writer" (Richard Dreyfuss), Writing the memoir about his youth. Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Oregon, Over Labor Day weekend in September 1959, Gordie (Wil Wheaton), And his friends Chris Chambers (River Phoenix) And Teddy Duchamp (Corey Feldman) Learn from their friend Vern Tessio (Jerry O'Connell) That the dead body of a boy named Ray Brower, who was struck by a train while picking blueberries in the woods, has not been found. While under his porch looking for his buried jar of pennies, Vern overheard his older brother talking about finding the body while in the woods with a friend. The boys then embark upon a two-day journey near Castle Rock to see and find the body.

Gordie is a quiet, bookish boy with a penchant for telling stories and writing, rejected by his father following the death of his football-star older brother Denny (John Cusack) In a Jeep accident. Chris is from a family of criminals and alcoholics and breaks the generational curse, he is usually stereotyped accordingly. Teddy is an eccentric and physically deformed after his mentally unstable father (whom Teddy sees as a war hero who "stormed the beach at Normandy") Held his ear to a stove and nearly burned it off, thus forcing him to wear a hearing aid. Vern, overweight and timid, is easily scared, and thus often picked on.

Through the boys' misadventures and conversations, the viewer learns about each character's personality. Gordie's talent for storytelling pegs him as the most likely of the four to have a promising future.

The film also contrasts a gang of bullies called the "Cobras," who are led by local hood John "Ace" Merrill (Kiefer Sutherland). Crucial to the story are the often sophomoric interpersonal exchanges among the four main characters.^[1] The boys find the body in the end, but decide to leave it to the authorities to deal with. They also refuse to allow Ace to take the body away after Gordie threatens him with a gun.

The film ends with the boys returning home to Castle Rock and saying goodbye to each other. The Writer states that Vern later married and became a fork-lift operator for a lumber company in Castle Rock and Teddy tried to join the military, but due to poor eyesight and his ear they refused to let him in, he eventually served jail time and now he was doing odd-jobs around Castle Rock. Chris later moved out of Castle Rock and became a lawyer. However, The Writer reveals that Chris was recently stabbed and killed when he tried to break up a fight in a line at a fast food place. The Writer then finishes his memoir and takes his kid and his friend out swimming.

[edit] Gordie's campfire story

During a scene where the boys are sitting around a campfire, Gordie tells a story about an obese boy named Davie Hogan, but because of his weight everyone, including his family, calls him "Lardass". All his life, Lardass has been beat -- up and picked on until one day, the day of the county fair pie eating contest, Lardass decides to get revenge. Lardass enters the contest without admission and is harassed by the crowd as he takes the stage. However, just moments earlier, Lardass drank a bottle of castor oil and swallowed a raw egg. During the contest, Lardass imagines that the pies he is eating are filled with "rat guts" until it makes him sick causing him to vomit on the person next to him. Eventually, it causes a "barf-o -rama "amongst the crowd as Lardass happily watches. When asked about what Lardass does next, Gordie replies:" I guess that he celebrated with a couple of cheeseburgers. "

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