It’s finally summer, and I get to drop an episode of Someone Else’s Movie that’s been waiting to go since March.

My guest is Rob Grant, a writer-director who established himself with a trio of genre-adjacent movies that play with their audiences’ assumptions and expectations in really interesting ways: The found-footage of Fake Blood, the barely-disguised Frankenstein riff of Alive and the seafaring three-hander Harpoon.

Rob’s new film, This Too Shall Pass — freshly available on streaming — is a different sort of picture. Set in 1989, it’s a coming-of-age picture that follows a sheltered Mormon teenager in Syracuse who convinces his buddies to join him on a road trip to Ottawa to see a girl he likes. It’s a tricky coming-of-age story with an underlying sweetness, dead-on period detail and solid work from Maxwell Jenkins, and Friend of the Show Katie Douglas shows up halfway to steal the picture. It’s good, you should see it.

Rob wanted to talk about another coming-of-age picture, from another Rob: Stand By Me, the 1986 adaptation of Stephen King’s novella “The Body” that let Rob Reiner pivot from comedies to more layered storytelling, and properly introduced the world to River Phoenix, Will Wheaton, Corey Feldman and Jerry O’Connell. Probably Kiefer Sutherland, too. It’s been forty years since Reiner’s movie first screened, and it still plays … though now it’s even more melancholy than it used to be, of course.

Don’t miss out! Subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, YouTube Podcasts or your podcatcher of choice, or download the episode directly from the web, and listen to it while you take that long, long bus ride into Canada.

And then you get to catch up on Shiny Things, where I’ve reviewed the new discs of Sir?t, The Bride! and recent Canadian Screen Award champion Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie — all of which would make pretty good additions to your collection, even if Sir?t is burned rather than pressed.

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