Free "Stand By Me" Showing & Party

We're so excited to be partnering with The Garden Theater to showcase a beloved film, Best In Show (1986, R)!

The showing is FREE to all guests, and if you dress up in your "best 'Stand By Me outfit," you get a free Kilwins treat! (Limited to first-come, first-serve basis.)

We couldn't BELIEVE the turnout to our free showing of Practical Magic back in October 2023 when we first started this thing; we had around 125 of you show up, and probably 90% of you were dressed up as a witch!

So we decided we'd like to make this a MONTHLY event, and we're calling it "Monthly Movie Club," where we will feature great nostalgic flicks!

January 2024: Grumpy Old Men - 75 people
February 2024: Casablanca - 130 people
March 2024: The Big Lebowski - 105 people
April 2024: A League of Their Own - 105 people
May 2024: The Great Outdoors - 70 people
June 2024: The Goonies - 210 people
July 2024: Dirty Dancing - 170 people
August 2024: Overboard - 100 people
September 2024: Clueless - 65 people
October 2024: Beetlejuice - 75 people
November 2024: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles - 85 people
December 2024: Love Actually - 125 people
January 2025: The Shining - 55 people
February 2025: Sleepless In Seattle- 80 people
March 2025: The Shawshank Redemption - 70 people
April 2025: You've Got Mail - 60 people
May 2025: Best In Show - 70 people

We can't wait to see you on Tuesday, June 24, at 7:30pm--bring your friends!

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Stand by Me is a 1986 American coming-of-age drama film, directed by Rob Reiner and based on Stephen King's 1982 novella "The Body." Starring Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, and Jerry O'Connell as four boys who set out on a journey to find the dead body of a missing boy, the film is set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Oregon in 1959. The film's title is derived from the 1961 song of the same name by Ben E. King, which plays during the film's closing credits.

Stand by Me received positive reviews upon release and was a commercial success. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and for two Golden Globe Awards--one for Best Drama Motion Picture and one for Best Director. Rolling Stone has called Stand by Me "a staple of youthful nostalgia" and "the rare movie that necessarily gets better with time".

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 92% based on 64 reviews and a rating average of 8/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Stand by Me is a wise, nostalgic movie with a weird streak that captures both Stephen King's voice and the trials of growing up." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 75 out of 100 based on 20 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.

Stephen King was very impressed with the film--on the special features of the 25th anniversary Blu-ray set, King indicated that he considered the film to be the first successful translation to film of any of his works. According to a later interview with Gene Siskel, Reiner recalled that after a private early screening of the film, King excused himself for fifteen minutes to compose himself; he later returned to remark, "'That's the best film ever made out of anything I've written, which isn't saying much. But you've really captured my story. It is autobiographical.'" In a 2016 interview, King said that Stand by Me was his favorite adaptation of his work, alongside The Shawshank Redemption.

In a 2011 piece entitled "25 years of Stand by Me", writer Alex Hannaford opined that "[for] anyone older than about 33, Stand by Me remains one of the greatest films to come out of the Eighties." Hannaford added that the film "has a charm and depth that seems to resonate with each generation".

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