"Between 1986 and 1992, Rob Reiner directed five movies that defined that era and had an impact on several generations: Stand by Me (1986), The Princess Bride (1987), When Harry Met Sally (1989), Misery (1990), and A Few Good Men (1992). These five films represent a Hollywood that seemed possible at the time, poised somewhere between the craftsmanship of the classics and the disillusionment of New Hollywood."
"The adventure follows a group of boys from a small town in Oregon who decide to search for the body of a missing child, though its underlying theme is orphanhood. None of the four friends feel loved at home, and the search for the body allows them to confront the emptiness they find in their own parents. Each of these boysled by Gordie, the narrator and protagonistrepresents a different kind of dysfunction."
Between 1986 and 1992 Rob Reiner directed five films — Stand by Me (1986), The Princess Bride (1987), When Harry Met Sally (1989), Misery (1990), and A Few Good Men (1992) — that defined an era and influenced several generations. The films bridged classical craftsmanship and New Hollywood disillusionment. Reiner's filmmaking drew on family roots, especially the influence of his father, Carl Reiner, which subtly appears in Stand by Me and A Few Good Men. Stand by Me, adapted from Stephen King's novella The Body, captures the loneliness and orphanhood of a generation through a boys' quest to find a missing child's body, confronting parental emptiness, abuse, abandonment, and delinquency. Reiner believed in cinema as a humanist and popular art form capable of tackling such difficult subjects.
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