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Ellie Kemp
Topics: Film and TV, Hollywood, Social Media, US News, Celebrity
Movie fans have praised director Rob Reiner's 'incredible' run of movies after his death aged 78.
The legendary Hollywood filmmaker was found dead along with his 68-year-old wife, Michele Singer Reiner, in their Brentwood, LA, home on Sunday (December 14).
It's reported that investigators believe they had both sustained stab wounds.
Cops responded to calls to provide medical aid to a property at around 3.38pm local time, where they then found Reiner and Michele tragically deceased.
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The couple's son, Nick Reiner, was arrested today (December 15) and is being held for a 'felony-level crime', the LA Sheriff's Department said.
Nick is the middle son of the Reiners and co-wrote 2016's Being Charlie, directed by his father. The movie is based loosely on Nick's addiction struggles and strained relationship with his family.
Reiner was behind multiple hit movies during his almost 60-year filmmaking career.
Flocking to social media, fans have been quick to point out a perfect streak of six incredible films that came out within just eight years.
The movies in question include 1984's This is Spinal Tap, which stars Chris Guest and follows a fictional British heavy metal band on a disastrous US tour.
Then there's 1986's Stand By Me, a coming-of-age drama based on Stephen King’s novella The Body, about four 12-year-old boys who hike across rural Oregon to find the body of a missing boy.
A year later, Reiner came out with The Princess Bride, a fantasy adventure about a farmhand who must rescue his true love from an evil prince.
In 1989, arguably his most iconic piece of film of all time debuted; When Harry Met Sally. Starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan, the romcom follows the pair's complicated dynamic over the course of a decade.
It was during the shooting of this very movie that Reiner met photographer Michele. They married that same year and their love story actually changed the ending of the flick.
Then we have 1990's Misery, a psychological horror thriller based on Stephen King’s novel of the same name.
It follows a famous novelist who, after a car crash, is held captive by an obsessive fan who forces him to write to her demands.
Rounding off the list is 1992's A Few Good Men, a legal drama adapted from Aaron Sorkin’s play, centered on a military court-martial of two US Marines accused of murdering a fellow Marine.
Taking to X, The Wrap praised the run as 'one of the best runs in director history'.
Fellow fans weighed in on the streak too.
"All unique genres too. And I would argue better than most films today in their storytelling and crafting," one person said.
A second commented: "That's a legendary streak of classics."
Others highlighted another fan-favorite movie that wasn't mentioned in the original run.
"Before all of those in 1985 there was 'The Sure Thing', one of my family's all time favorite movies," somebody else said.
"From that point on I knew if it was a Rob Reiner movie it was going to be amazing."