Julia Roberts says her daughter was inspired to give up her phone

Hollywood star Julia Roberts has talked about how the 1986 classic “Stand by Me’ significantly impacted her daughter, Hazel, when she was younger.

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“Stand By Me,” a coming-of-age movie directed by Rob Reiner, starring Jerry O'Connell, Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, and Corey Feldman, is about a group of friends in 1959 who go in search of a dead body.

In an interview with The New York Times promoting her latest film, “After the Hunt,” Roberts said: “I think people don't realise how much they miss talking.” The actress and husband Danny Moder share 20-year-old twins Hazel and Phinnaeus as well as 18-year-old son Henry Daniel. “For some reason, I was thinking this morning about when my kids were young and we showed them Stand by Me, and our daughter said to me, ‘I'm going to give you my phone.’ And I said, ‘OK. What do you want me to do with it?’ “ recalled Roberts.