How to stream 92% rated Rob Reiner Stephen King adaptation for free as author pays tribute to 'wonderful friend'

Here is how you can stream a top-rated Stephen King adaptation by Rob Reiner for free.

The celebrated director scored a hit run of movies between the late 80s and early 90s, including two Stephen King reworks.

But one Reiner film moved the author to tears; a movie he later called 'the best adaptation of anything I’ve ever written'.

The filmmaker's impressive catalogue has resurfaced after Reiner, 78, and his wife Michele, 68, were tragically found dead at their Los Angeles home on Sunday (December 14).

Police said they responded to calls to provide medical aid to a property at around 3.38pm local time.

Authorities then launched a homicide investigation.

On Monday (December 15), LASD Inmate Center records revealed that Reiner’s son, 32-year-old Nick Reiner, had been arrested.

It was previously reported that he was being held on a $4 million bail, however the LAPD has since confirmed that Nick remains in custody with no bail.

Tributes began flooding in for the couple, while president Donald Trump issued a controversial comment on Reiner's death, slammed as 'disgusting and shameful'.

He has since defended the Truth Social post.

Elsewhere, This is Spinal Tap star Christopher Guest and wife Jamie Lee Curtis paid a touching tribute to the couple, and so too did Reiner's New Girl co-star, Zooey Deschanel.

King also took to X to honor the Reiners.

"I’m horrified and saddened by the death of Rob Reiner and Michele. Wonderful friend, political ally, and brilliant filmmaker (including 2 of mine)," he wrote.

"Rest in peace, Rob. You always stood by me."

The duo had known each other for decades, with Reiner adapting King's 1982 novella The Body into the box office hit, Stand By Me.

The coming-of-age movie is narrated by Richard Dreyfuss as Gordie Lachance, who is looking back at the life-changing summer of 1959.

As a 12-year-old boy in the small fictional town of Castle Rock, Oregon, young Gordie (Wil Wheaton) and his three close friends, Chris Chambers (River Phoenix), Teddy Duchamp (Corey Feldman) and Vern Tessio (Jerry O'Connell), set out on an adventure to find the body of a missing boy named Ray Brower (Kent W. Luttrell).

Locals believe Brower was hit by a train, but as the boys set out to discover the truth, they also learn more than they could've ever imagined about themselves and the true meaning of friendship.

Stand By Me was nominated for an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, has a 92 percent Rotten Tomatoes score and was praised by Rolling Stone as 'a staple of youthful nostalgia' and 'the rare movie that necessarily gets better with time'.

If you want to watch the movie and you're based in the US, you have a couple of different options available.

To catch the film for free, you can sign up to streaming service Fubo, as per JustWatch.

It is usually $32 a month, but at the moment you can get a seven day free trial.

You need to act fast though, as Stand By Me leaves Fubo on December 30.

Alternatively, US Netflix subscribers can stream the movie right now.

Other options include renting Stand By Me on Amazon Video or Apple TV from $3.59.

Unfortunately, if you're based in the UK, your only choice is to rent the movie from either Apple TV, Amazon Video, the Sky Store or Rakuten TV from £3.49.

Find out where to stream Stand By Me in your country here.