Rob Reiner, Stand by Me
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Both fans and friends of Rob Reiner mourned the director's death on Monday mourning, including his collaborators on one of his biggest films: "Stand By Me." Stephen King, author of the novella "The Body,
Stand by Me star Wil Wheaton spoke about director Rob Reiner just days before Reiner was found murdered alongside his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, in their Los Angeles home on Sunday4, 2025. Multiple sources claim that Reiner’s son,
Stephen King recalled his emotional reaction to watching director Rob Reiner's film "Stand by Me" for the first time in an essay for the New York Times.
What I’m saying is that in Rob’s hands, it all rang true. The funny parts were really funny (including the barf-o-rama) and the dramatic parts hit me where I lived, or where I did live back in the days when John F. Kennedy was president and gas was a quarter a gallon.
Rob Reiner has become the grim focal point of renewed claims his beloved film Stand By Me is shadowed by a Hollywood curse, after the director and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, were brutally killed in what prosecutors allege was a savage knife attack by their drug-ravaged son,
Released in 1986 and shot the previous summer, “Stand by Me” is ostensibly a coming-of-age story about four boys who set out to find the dead body of another boy rumored to be lying near the railroad tracks outside their Oregon town in 1959. Ray Brower was looking for coins along the tracks when he was apparently struck by a locomotive.
Colleagues, friends, fans across Hollywood were aghast tonight over the sudden death of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Reiner.
These previously unpublished photos were taken by the Democrat-Herald during the filming of Stand by Me on Main Street of Brownsville, Oregon in July of 1985.
The two-time Emmy winner and Oscar nominee and his wife, Michele, were found dead in their Brentwood home. The LAPD says their son Nick, who was arrested and booked for murder, is "responsible" for their deaths.