December 15, 2025
"Join legendary director Rob Reiner and his son Nick Reiner as they discusses their new film 'Being Charlie,' about a troublesome 18-year-old..."
"... who breaks out of a youth drug treatment clinic, returns home to Los Angeles, and is given an intervention by his parents and forced to go to an adult rehab...."
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What an anti Semite his kid turned out to be...
Here's the trailer.
Rob directed it and his son co-wrote the screenplay with Matt Elisofon.
I could see why police would think Nick is a person of interest, because of this past. But I also suspect People made up quotes and did a horrible bit of journalism.
Being Charlie was released 10 years ago.
The Post is reporting that Reiner's daughter, who discovered the bodies, accused her brother of the crime.
Couldn't stand this guy's political takes, but truly an acting and comedic treasure lost.
Of course if this were someone on the right - say Mel Gibson or James woods - there would already be 50 comments here blaming democrats.
With this incident I can't help but think of Alec Baldwin and the Rust negligent killing. Similiar politics, similar terrible events, and perhaps similar ideological blind spots. Hollywood celebrities routinely focus on weapons (guns | knives), but never the people who use them to do things.
The Brown-Simpson/Goldman killer is still on the loose in Brentwood. Just saying ...
This is just awful. Politics ain't everything, and this guy was incredibly talented. A Few Good Men, This is Spinal Tap, Misery, Stand By Me, just to name a few. I will always remember watching When Harry Met Sally in the theater. Everyone had tears of laughter running down their cheeks during the famous faux orgasm scene. Thank you for the memories. RIP Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer
A democrat Killed Charlie Kirk. The desperate hack Soviet Democratic media did all they could to hide it and lie.
so what is your point Jim 3501?
Watching that interview I sense a lot of tension between them. Rob bends over backwards to give his son space and equality but I don’t feel it’s working. There’s still distance. I won’t watch the film but I would like to see how they negotiated their positions towards each other in it, using sock puppets.
I'm sad he was murdered. No one deserves that.
and despite his being a loyal democrat party meathead - he was a fabulous director.
Jimmy Numbers comes through with the pure projection. What a surprise.
His son was raised by leftists - who probably preached leftism. Not a necessarily a reality-based childhood.
Sometimes I am happy I don’t have wealth and fame.
Of course if this were someone on the right - say Mel Gibson or James woods - there would be lefties celebrating it.
Trying to make art out of your life is often a good thing for the artist. Not necessarily good art. Not really a movie I want to see, with an unlikable protagonist and a passive-aggressive conflict. At least, that’s the vibe I get from the trailer.
Interesting that the son is mad at the father for his political ambitions. I think Rob Reiner was contemplating running for office at some point. But elected not to do so for personal reasons.
Jim 5230
This is your team
A thought popped into my head this morning when I remembered that Reiner and his wife were murdered last night: was he a Zionist? Grok told me no, that he supported Israel but also criticized them. But that “supported Israel” part gave me pause in a weekend where Jews were targeted in Australia, perhaps targeted at the most Jewish of the Ivies (I checked this: their 24% Jewish student body is the highest percentage), and now a Jewish director and his Jewish wife are stabbed to death. Antisemitism is not just on the rise, it’s evolving and exploding. Bad times.
I feel so bad for the kids. You discover the murder of your parents. You blame your brother. It’s awful if he’s guilty and worse if he’s innocent and you’ve accused him of murder. That family is in for so much heartache.
Susan Misner is better looking than Morgan Saylor but it's a close call.
Did they rule out murder suicide? And if it can be ruled out, how can it be ruled out?
Murder suicide doesn’t have to be a mutually agreed upon thing. I believe that is true. I don’t know.
"A Few Good Men, This is Spinal Tap, Misery, Stand By Me
A Few Good Men - Aaron Sorkin, author
Misery - Steven King, author
Stand By Me - Ray Gideon and Bruce Evans, writers (based on a short story by Steven King
The Princess Bride - William Golden, author
Rob Reiner didn't bring these to us. These fine authors did. He traded on THEIR talents. It doesn't take much of a director to make Jack Nicolson into an asshole, or Robin Wright a beautiful princess.
The Romans knew what to do with people who murdered their parents. From Google:
The traditional Roman punishment for patricide (killing one's parent) was the horrific "poena cullei" (penalty of the sack), where the convicted was sewn into a leather sack with a dog, rooster, snake, and monkey, then thrown into water to drown, often being attacked by the animals during the process. This severe punishment, described by jurists like Modestinus (3rd century CE) and documented from the 1st century BC onwards, emphasized the unique gravity of harming one's own parent …
Drug addicts don’t normally kill their parents. Wasn’t Reiner a big psycho and rage-aholic? I’m guessing there is a whole very messy backstory to the Reiner family.
He and his Democrat pals love violence against anyone who is not "with them." So his dying as he died is rather fitting, is it not?
Done in by his own son over whom Meathead had full control from birth. Nice work, Meathead.
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
So, hearing hate "against the right" in Meathead's household since childhood did have adverse consequences.
A generation back, well actually two back, John Wayne's (conservative) politics were disliked by his Hollywood peers, but they joined us all in applauding his talent and his impact on American culture.
For Princess Bride alone we should live up to that standard.
This from AOL :
"For years, Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife struggled as their son Nick was addicted to hard drugs, rotating in and out of rehab facilities like they were shopping malls. As it turned out, Nick Reiner would survive his descent into heroin and homelessness, recently getting clean."
I wonder if the guy was on anti-depressants to help against his addiction. In any case, there seems to be mental illness involved, with the heroin use as more of a symptom than a cause.
THe Romans in BC (Before Christ) were no more barbaric than anyone else. In fact less so. They were just more successful and famous.
He was the epitome of my "I don't care about their politics, only about their artistry" people. This is a giant loss. It's also another chapter in the book of failed children of celebrities.
Trump takes a leak on the freshly dug grave:
The president said that Reiner, a 'once very talented movie director and comedy star,' had passed away 'reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease' known as TDS - or Trump Derangement Syndrome.
'He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness.'
The media reporting the killer's name when the investigation has just started reminds me of Absence of Malice.
I wonder if the ADL will count this as "Antisemitic Violence".
And I say "the media" but so far it's just People magazine. They are barely above National Enquirer. Has anybody here actually read a People magazine? Ugh. Horrible gossip sheet.
It must be hell having a mentally ill child or parent. The availability of hard drugs like heroin and fent (thanks leftists!) probably doesn't make it easier for anyone.
And anti-depressants seem to have an outsized relationship to so many of these crazy murders and mass-murders. You gotta wonder what's going on.
Well, I do believe he expressed the sentiment that it would be better to leave the USA if Trump was president. Wish granted.
Could be a Festivus miracle,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ftZgi1xI-s
I gotta say again, I don't particularly like any of his movies. Reiner really had his pulse on public taste back in the 80s and 90s because everyone lapped up his mediocre hack movies.
Of course, he was lucky to get Tom Cruise and Jack for "A few good men". You wonder how the movie would've gone over if Tom Selleck and Bruce Willis had played the roles.
He hated Trump so much that he checked himself to a mental facility after the election in 2024. He thought he would go crazy. It was too late. TDS had eaten his brain. He couldnt help his son.
Nick was arrested. I hope this won't interfere with his search for the real killers.
Trump decided to go with his a##hole persona on Truth Social. He never ceases to frustrate.
"TDS had eaten his brain."
Giving further evidence of Savage's observation, "Liberalism is a mental disorder."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism_Is_a_Mental_Disorder
Tacitus said:
A generation back, well actually two back, John Wayne's (conservative) politics were disliked by his Hollywood peers, but they joined us all in applauding his talent and his impact on American culture.
For Princess Bride alone we should live up to that standard.
It's been great to see many Hollywood rightys like James Woods and Patricia Heaton not only express condolences but share how gracious he would be in person to them.
Trump has the opportunity to make an incredible appointment:
Nick Reiner, Assistant Secretary of War
FormerLawClerk said...
"A Few Good Men, This is Spinal Tap, Misery, Stand By Me
A Few Good Men - Aaron Sorkin, author
Misery - Steven King, author
Stand By Me - Ray Gideon and Bruce Evans, writers (based on a short story by Steven King
The Princess Bride - William Golden, author
Rob Reiner didn't bring these to us. These fine authors did. He traded on THEIR talents. It doesn't take much of a director to make Jack Nicolson into an asshole, or Robin Wright a beautiful princess.”
Being an author and being a director are different skillsets. Both are needed to make a movie. Rob Reiner was a skilled director. While I disagree with his politics, the murder of him and his wife is a sad event. Those who cheer their murders are just as contemptible as those who were happy about Charlie Kirk’s assassination. It takes a particularly shitty person to not condemn murder based on political views.
Will Kamala give Nick $4 million for bail money?
Discuss.
"Rob Reiner was a skilled director."
He pointed a camera at Jack Nicholson and said Action.
Brilliant.
I’m having a lot of trouble when I read comments upthread that appear to tie (or try to tie) Reiner’s murder and the murder of his wife to his TDS. The son was a heavy drug user and possibly mentally ill as well. These facts are orthogonal to Reiner’s politics, and I do not see a connection at all.
"It takes a particularly shitty person to not condemn murder based on political views."
We have no idea why his own son decided to slit his throat. Maybe the kid was raped by his father as a young boy and this was his attempt to find justice.
Before you write this whack jobs hagiography, you might want to wait for all the facts to come out.
OT:
Brown university - Democratic Leftist Killer:
Will the cult leftists here condemn? or will they do their usual Kimmel's wife lie? and blame Maga.
"Ella Cook was just 19 years old—a Conservative, a Christian, and Vice President of the Republican Club at Brown University.
She was brutally killed by a shooter in what appears to be a targeted political attack.
If you still don’t see what’s happening, you haven’t been paying attention.
Just this year alone:
- Tricia McLaughlin threatened with public execution
- Two National Guard troops shot in DC
- The seditious six Democrats claiming President Trump telling the military to not follow orders
- Jay Jones openly fantasizing about murdering Republicans and their children wins election in Virginia
- President Trump experiencing two assassination attempts
- Charlie Kirk assassinated on live TV, the left celebrated
- Attacks on ICE officers have skyrocketed over 1000%
- LA Riots and terror attacks
- Leftist sniper murders three at ICE facility in Texas
- Massive violent riots at ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois and Portland Oregon
- Annunciation Catholic Church children shot while praying by left wing Trump-hating transgender activist
- ABC News stations shot up
- Alina Habba attacked
- Ed Martin Attacked
- Rogue judges releasing career criminals back onto the streets, terrorizing Americans
The left’s violent rhetoric has turned into nationwide violence. If we don’t crush this threat now, we lose everything. It’s only escalating.
Enough is enough."
Benny
Reiner was a typical leftist. Angry and full of rage at every Republican success. He was so hateful toward Trump that Trump just put out a post that was full of words about Reiner's TDS, with some perfunctory "sorry he died" words at the end.
I wonder what Reiner said about the attemped Trump assassinations.
Rob Reiner was a skilled director ..."
No, he wasn't. By the only measures that matter.
He won exactly ZERO Academy Awards as a director, actor or writer. None of his movies ever won an Academy Award. Only one was even ever nominated and he lost to ... of course ...
Donald Trump's best buddy: Clint Eastwood.
FLC - this isn't political. An innocent man was murdered.
STFU and go away.
If Tim Walz(D) isn't indicted and arrested for his links to the Minnesota billions in money fraud w/ the Somali community - we are fucked.
Walz and Billionaire Soviet Democratic mobster Pritzker - their rhetoric inspires radical leftist monsters who kill.
"An innocent man was murdered.
Really? Shouldn't we wait to hear the killer's side of the story first before making such judgements? Maybe Reiner attacked the kid and it was self-defense.
FLC - why not wait until we know? until then - STFU.
I'm withholding judgement until I hear from Kato Kaelin on this one. I certainly hope Johnnie Cochran is going to offer his services to the young Reiner.
I liked his movies but not so much his politics, which seemed way too over the top. I would have thought that in other respects he was a decent enough person, but who knows.....I heard Jordan Peterson describe addiction as a form of demonic possession. The addiction magnified and focused the evil in the son's soul a thousand times. Neither Reiner nor his wife deserved such a fate. The magnitude of this evil is stunning.
A nice presidential sounding tweet from Trump. For once he didn’t make it all about him.
William - well said.
Reiner on the Trump election -
“Republicans have no idea what they have done,” Reiner said just yesterday at 8:45 pm. “America has fallen. MAGA just do not understand the consequences of electing a fascist like Donald Trump.”
At 10:57 pm, Reiner continued to rail against BlueSky "This platform is vile, racist, and evil,” he claimed. “It did not take long for MAGA scum to come spread their lies.”
I'll miss the Meathead. Won't miss his politics. And if it was the son who killed his parents, that's truly an awful way to go.
Some people have a very hard time at Christmas. I had a better life but still, in my family, we always sang all five verses of this song at Christmas time. Sort of in the middle of the carols - not at the beginning or the end - just there, acknowledging a certain kind of moment. What is faith, after all, but living by the evidence of things unseen amid the evidence of things seen.
I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace of earth, good will to men.
I thought how, as the day had come,
The belfries of all Christendom
Had rolled along th'unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
And in despair I bowed my head:
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong, and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men."
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail,
With peace on earth, good will to men."
Till, ringing, singing on its way,
The world revolved from night to day
A voice, a chime, a chant sublime,
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
FormerLawClerk
“Rob Reiner didn't bring these to us. These fine authors did.”
Movies are a collaboration and the director gets the most credit because they bring the parts from script to acting all together in a way that works if the film is considered good or great. Screenwriters should perhaps get more credit but the director certainly deserves credit if their adaptation works well.
There are many directors in the history of Hollywood [or film] who did not write screenplays yet were directors of great films. David Lean [Lawrence of Arabia], Michael Curtiz [Casablanca], John Ford [The Searchers] are three that come to mind. Reiner was respected as a director.
I assume that killing your parents (or anyone) with a knife is an intensely angry experience. One wonders what went wrong with the kid and whether he was on drugs at the time.
It is very sad and very disturbing. I cannot see any reason to bring politics into this tragedy.
Reiner called Trump "mentally ill", produced a movie attacking him and MAGA, and constantly called Trump a "threat to Democracy". There was no sympathy to Trump extended after the assassination attempt, and Reiner called for Trump to be imprisioned. So, I can now understand Trump's reaction.
Many drug addicts have comorbid serious mental illness. "Drug addiction" is often self-medicating willful action, when mental health interventions don't work, or aren't even available in sufficient quantity, quality, and duration. Mental health interventions are very expensive, difficult to obtain, and legally nearly impossible to impose upon unwilling adult. Ergo "homelessness", along with "drug addiction", mostly unresolved by huge grants to ineffective "homeless advocates" failing to address underlying mental illness.
Not surprised Reiner's daughter assumed perpetrator was Reiner's son. We've friends and family with young adult children who have serious medical illness, living in family home, not receiving capable medical treatment, where everyone is worried about likelihood of an eventual huge explosive violent argument catastrophically destroying the family. I'm so sorry for the Reiner family, for they most of endured a world of heartbreak, and pervasive fear, for so many years.
How much credit a director should get varies from movie to movie. In the case of a Few Good Men. The film based on a Sorkin broadway play. Reiner then not only produced and directed the film, he adapted the play for Film by rewriting it with Sorkin and William Goldman.
In the case of Princess Bride. Reiner directed and co-produced it along with adopting it to film with help from the novelist William Goldman.
So Reiner just wasn't just plopped into the directors seat to say "action" and "cut"
Difference between the Left and Right. The Left thinks they are moral and the Right evil and immoral. The right? They don't think at all.
Reiner was respected as a director.
No, he wasn't.
Respected directors win Academy Awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ... literally other directors and 11,000 other professionals in his career field, who are invited to judge movie professionals. You cannot join this elite group; you must be invited to it after you have established your bona fides.
The Academy never awarded Rob Reiner a single honor. He was not respected by the elite peers in his chosen profession.
Perhaps we could wait until more facts come out?
Son Nick’s eyes looked sad and disengaged during their interview.
In the meantime, I don’t wish murder by stabbing on my worst enemy.
@FormerLawClerk:
You conflate "respect" with "commercial funding and recognition." The Academy Awards are where the coke sniffing, bed hopping, gold digging, marriage-of-the-week climbers in the Academy put on fancy clothes and act out "sophistication" as they understand it. The Grammy (music) awards are similar, as they were long nicknamed the "granny" awards. Some of those went to A&M Records founder Herb Alpert...despite unclear musical talent.
Hollywood's corrupt commercialization follows from which movies stand to make money, get attention from politicians, and please the studio owners. Rob Reiner didn't make that kind of movie, but he was indeed highly respected.
Drug addicts don’t normally kill their parents.
That depends on what you mean by "normal." Dysfunctional adult children killing a parent turns up in the papers several times a year, especially in Metro NYC. It doesn't usually happen in Brentwood, but the Menendez brothers didn't live so far away over in Beverly Hills.
This reminds me a little of the Paul Auster family saga a few years back. The ten-month-old daughter of his drug-addicted son died with heroin and fentanyl in her system. Then the son OD'ed himself shortly afterwards. I also couldn't help thinking of Marvin Gaye, killed by his father in the Eighties.
Tacitus got it right. "A generation back, well actually two back, John Wayne's (conservative) politics were disliked by his Hollywood peers, but they joined us all in applauding his talent and his impact on American culture. For Princess Bride alone we should live up to that standard." When a corporate re-org slashed my whole department, our boss booked a conference room for a two-hour meeting. We were puzzled at what we would have to talk about for so long. She showed us "The Princess Bride." Always love her for that.
FormerLawClerk
> The Academy never awarded Rob Reiner a single honor. He was not respected by the elite peers in his chosen profession.
Hmmm, I would say one doesn't have to win to be respected. Only five directors are nominated each year but there are always more than five good films a year.
Note that there are many directors including Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Sidney Lumet and Quentin Tarantino who did not won an Oscar for directing. I would not say they were not respected.
But please note that But Reiner did get nominated three times for Outstanding Directorial Achievement by the Director’s Guild of America [which are his direct peers] and four times for the Golden Globes. More importantly he made three or four films that are touchstones in American cinema in the 1980's [all made between 1984 and 1989] – Stand By Me, This is Spinal Tap, The Princess Bride and When Harry Met Sally. That's a pretty good run. Ben Stiller said they were formative to his generation.
I watched the interview with Rob and Nick Reiner.
1. All was not well in Reiner land. The dynamic between Rob and Nick was visibly strained: Rob was trying to be very solicitous, while Nick was rather unsociable. At the end, Nick essentially said he had no job and no prospects.
2. Rob’s anti-Trump rant was so over the top. If this was how he discussed politics at home, I’d start taking drugs too. Folks, don’t do this to your kids. Kids take this stuff really seriously. Bill Maher says the same things, but he doesn’t raise your anxiety level to 11 when he does it.
None of this, of course, is a reason to slash anyone’s throat.
Sad. He was really talented
I predict that he will be honored, posthumouslv, at the Academy Awards.
Google says:
Rob and Nick Reiner had a "very loud" argument at Conan O'Brien's Christmas party the night before the murders.
While the exact topic of the argument has not been publicly confirmed, sources indicate the argument was over Nick's long-standing substance abuse and mental health issues.
Key details regarding the argument:
Audibility: The argument was loud enough that other guests at the A-list party could hear it.
Behavior: Multiple attendees observed Nick "acting strangely" and appearing to be "totally f**ked up" at the event.
Departure: Rob and Michele Reiner left the party shortly after the explosive argument, with some sources noting guests felt uncomfortable around Nick.
Context: Michele Reiner had reportedly confided in friends in the months prior that she and Rob were at their "wits' end" with Nick's issues and felt they had "tried everything".
This is not the first time I've had to imagine the horror and disappointment a parent must feel just before their child kills them. Suddenly everything is wrong and your life a disaster. The worst way to die I can imagine. Even torture doesn't break your heart like that.
Starting at 18:30,non stop six and a half minute rant about Trump. Prior to election
Eva Marie said: "...don't raise your anxiety level to 11..."
ISWYDT
I think Trump's statement was obnoxious and wrong. That said, let it be noted that both Biden and Reiner raised sons that even by drug addict standards, were god-awful people and that Trump's sons to date have been guilty of nothing worse than big game hunting. Trump has many blatant defects, but, as thrice married men go, he's a good father.
The last role i saw him in him was a cameo in the wolf of wall street where he played a relative to belfort
About 20 minutes in, RR hijacks the conversation and goes on a tirade against Trump. You can see the hurt in NR’s eyes in response. Trump’s post may not have been far off the mark.
Reiner was a hack director. That's why he never won an Oscar. Good Grief. He was King of the Midwits. And too much of one even for the Academy.
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