Film · 1986 · Films · 1980s
Stand by Me
Scored from 582 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).
Summary
Over a long weekend at the end of summer 1959, four twelve-year-old friends from Castle Rock, Oregon hike out along the railroad tracks to find the body of Ray Brower, a boy their age struck by a train. Gordie Lachance is a quiet aspiring writer overlooked by parents grieving his athlete brother; Chris Chambers carries his family's criminal reputation; Teddy Duchamp is the reckless son of an institutionalised, violent father; Vern Tessio overheard where the body lies. The two-day trek puts them against a junkyard dog, a leech-filled pond, a railway trestle over a river, and a gang of older teenagers led by Ace Merrill who want the find for themselves. Rob Reiner's adaptation of Stephen King's novella 'The Body' is a coming-of-age drama narrated by the grown Gordie looking back.
Stand by Me is a 1986 adventure and drama film. It is rated R. It was made in the United States. The runtime is 89 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 11,315 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. 582 IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 625 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 3,140 1980s films, not against the whole corpus.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where Stand by Me lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against Films · 1980s (3,141 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 582.
Cohort: Films · 1980s
