Carla Meyer (sunnews.com) takes the time to make some great comparisons between Rob Reiners new movie Flipped and his classic Stand By Me. Toward the end of the article, Meyer also talks about Reiners involvement in First 5 and California politics.
.Here's the portion that made direct connections to Stand By Me:
."Flipped," a coming-of-age film opening Friday in Sacramento, leaves no doubt about who directed it. From its period setting to its saturated-sunlight visuals, "Flipped" evokes "Stand By Me."
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That's intentional, Reiner, 63, said during an interview at Sacramento's Citizen Hotel. Of all his films, "Stand By Me," the 1986 movie that was based on a Stephen King novella and starred a young River Phoenix and Corey Feldman, most closely reflects his personal sensibility, the director said.
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Based on a kids novel by Wendelin Van Draanen, "Flipped" follows a somewhat eccentric girl (Madeline Carroll) with a mad crush on her straight-arrow neighbor (Callan McAuliffe). The film touches on the kids' family dynamics while always keeping the slow-building, surprisingly compelling relationship between boy and girl at the forefront.
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"The book was a modern-day book, but it felt very timeless when I read it - it seemed like something more innocent than what we see now," said Reiner, who first read the book when his now-16-year-old son was assigned it in class a few years ago.
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Reiner moved the story to the late 1950s and early '60s, roughly the same time period of "Stand By Me" and his own adolescence.
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The film "explores what it really means for a boy and a girl to wrestle with those early feelings that are so powerful, of falling in love, in a real, honest way, in the way 'Stand By Me' explored friendships," Reiner said.
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The cast of "Flipped," however, came into the shoot more polished than the fledgling actors in "Stand By Me," Reiner said. Carroll, a charismatic 14-year-old who starred opposite Kevin Costner in 2008's "Swing Vote," "has the chops of a 40- or 50-year-old actress," he said.
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