Parents Guide for
Stand by Me (1986)

Some mild sexual references.

The boys talk about a woman's breasts and how great they are.

Four boys are covered in leaches and blood is seen when they are pulling them off.

The face of a dead boy's body is seen. His eyes are open and he has some blood on his face.

Graphic but predictable vomit scenes, which are all used for laughs.

We an older gang carving words into their skin with a blade, blood is seen.

An older boy bullies a younger boy by pushing him to the ground, getting on top of him and then he puts a lit cigarette close to the kid's eye: threatening to put it in.

Some coarse language (e.g. "f*ck") is used throughout the film by pre-teen boys. S-word, and many milder swears.

Contains scenes of minors smoking cigarettes.

The body of a dead boy may be frightning to younger viewers.

Boys are covered in leaches, may be frightning because their is a bit of blood seen and the thought of having one on your penis is frightening...and yes, that does happen in the film but we don't see anything, the boy just reaches down into his pants and pulls out a blood soaked leach. It might give you the shivers.

A story is told of a kid who makes himself vomit on people who mistreated him during a pie eating contest, to inturn make them all vomit on each other; it's graphic and can make you sick as well;

Two boys are on traintracks and a train is coming right at them.

There are some very threatening scenes between the boys and an older gang.

A group of pre-teen boys stay in the bush one night and they all take turns of keeping watch with a gun, strange and scary noises are heard that they think are ghosts or wolves.

The climax shows the two gangs of boys meeting up. They both want to take the body but the younger ones got there first. An arguement takes place which makes the oldest one of the older gang pull out a knife. He threatens to kill one of them and just when he goes to attack, one of the younger boys pulls out a gun and shoots it. But it turns out that he shot it in the air and no one got hurt, the older gang gets scared and runs off.