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  • Rob Reiner pays tribute to 'wonderful' Ephron - 27 June 2012
    -Actor/moviemaker Rob Reiner has paid his respects to When Harry Met Sally... screenwriter Nora Ephron, revealing she was just like the fussy Sally Albright character she created for the hit romantic comedy.-Reiner directed the movie classic and admits Ephron, who d

Rob Reiner - what members say


  • The Princess Bride
  • The Princess Bride review by A customer from Inglewood
    Rated - 4.0 stars My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die. 24 May 2005
    ...The Princess Bride is a hilarious film from back in the day when Rob Reiner was a great director. The plot, involving a peasant/pirate rescuing a pretty woman from being...   Read customer review
  • Misery
  • Misery review by from BLACKPOOL
    Rated - 5.0 stars 19 April 2004
    ...e who to thank for makin this a great movie, Stephen King for writing the book, Rob Reiner for directing it or Kathy Bates for playing a nutter, but who ever, this is a t...   Read customer review

Rob Reiner - filmography


  • The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)
    Starring: Morgan Freeman,  Kenan Thompson,  Virginia Madsen
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Monte Wildhorn, a famous Western novelist whose struggle with alcoholism has sapped his passion for writing. He takes a lakeside cabin for the summer in picturesque Belle Isle, and befriends the family next door-an attractive single mom and her young daughters-who help him find inspiration again.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 20 members
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  • Flipped (2010)
    Starring: Madeline Carroll,  Callan McAuliffe,  Rebecca De Mornay
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    When second-graders Bryce and Juli first meet, Juli knows it's love. But Bryce isn't so sure. Girl-phobic and easily embarrassed, young Bryce does everything he can to keep his outspoken wannabe girlfriend at arm's length... for the next six years, which isn't easy since they go to the same school ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 62 members
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  • The Bucket List - Blu-ray (2008)
    Starring: Alfonso Freeman,  Sean Hayes,  Rob Morrow
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Adventure comedy starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. Billionaire Edward Cole (Nicholson) and working class mechanic Carter Chambers (Freeman) are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 10,248 members
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  • Rumour Has It... on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Christopher McDonald,  Shirley MacLaine,  Mark Ruffalo
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Jennifer Aniston stars in this romantic comedy from director Rob Reiner. Aniston plays Sarah Huttinger, a young woman who travels back to visit her family in California and is shocked to learn that they were supposedly the model for the classic book and film 'The Graduate', and that her youthful ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 38,240 members
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  • Alex And Emma on DVD (2003)
    Starring: David Paymer,  Sophie Marceau,  Luke Wilson
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Rob Reiner directs this romantic comedy about an author, Alex (Luke Wilson), who has received a threat from gangsters that they will kill him if he doesn't repay his gambling debts within 30 days. The only way he can possibly get the money is to finish his new novel, so to speed things up he hires ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 4,000 members
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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm - Series 2 (2 discs) on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Shaquille O'Neal,  Jason Alexander,  Wanda Sykes
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    All 10 episodes from the second season of the award-winning US TV series in which Larry David (of 'Seinfeld' fame), has it all - career, happy marriage, friends, beautiful home - but always finds that in spite of his seemingly perfect existence, his day-to-day life can, and generally does, turn ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 7,369 members
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  • EDtv on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Martin Landau,  Ellen DeGeneres,  Sally Kirklan
    Director: Ron Howard
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Ordinary guy Ed Pekurny (Matthew McConaughey) agrees to star in a new reality-based TV show which will follow his life twenty-four hours a day. The show isn't much of a success, until Ed begins to fall for Shari (Jenna Elfman), the girlfriend of his brother Ray (Woody Harrelson). Suddenly the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 2,290 members
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  • The Story Of Us on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Michelle Pfeiffer,  Tim Matheson
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    After fifteen years of marriage, Ben (Bruce Willis) and Katie Jordan's (Michelle Pfeiffer) marriage has lost its spark, with the couple putting on a brave face for the benefit of their children, twelve-year-old Josh and ten-year-old Erin. While the kids are away at summer camp, Ben and Katie decide ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,198 member
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  • The First Wives Club on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Stephen Collins,  Goldie Hawn,  Victor Garber
    Director: Hugh Wilson
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Upon graduating from college in 1969, friends Annie, Brenda, Cynthia and Elise vow that they will never lose touch. Nearly three decades later, Cynthia commits suicide after her husband abandons her. Meeting at her funeral, the three remaining friends each confess that their respective spouses have ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 5,777 members
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  • The American President on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Martin Sheen,  David Paymer,  Samantha Mathis
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Widowed US President Andrew Shepherd (Michael Douglas) is unwilling to jeopardise his high standing in the opinion polls by taking political risks. However, when he begins dating environmental lobbyist Sydney Wade (Annette Bening), his opponents use his personal life as a point of attack. Can the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 6,026 members
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  • Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
    Starring: Joe Viterelli,  Dianne Wiest,  Tracey Ullman
    Director: Woody Allen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Bullets Over Broadway is a Woody Allen romp that, as the title suggests, combines gangsters with show business at the height of the Roaring Twenties. David Shayne (John Cusack) is a straight-arrow playwright who plans to stand firm against compromising his work, but quickly abandons that stance ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 3,913 members
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  • Mixed Nuts on DVD (1994)
    Starring: Steve Martin,  Madeline Kahn,  Anthony La Paglia
    Director: Nora Ephron
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Philip (Steve Martin) is the owner of a suicide hotline, where the staff need help more than the callers. However, when Christmas arrives, all is about to change; Philip loses his fiancee, his hotline service is about to be evicted, he gets involved with a lonely cross-dresser and finds himself on ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 1,068 member
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  • North (1994)
    Starring: Elijah Wood,  Jason Alexander,  Julia Louis-Dreyfus
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    North (Elijah Wood) divorces his biological parents and sets out to scour the earth for the ideal set of replacements. To help him along the way, a confidante (Bruce Willis) advises and abets the search for North's elusive "perfect" adoptive parents.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 25 members
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  • Sleepless in Seattle on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Bill Pullman,  Rosie O'Donnell,  Ross Malinger
    Director: Nora Ephron
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) has lost his wife to cancer and, left to bring up his son alone, tries to make a new start by moving to Seattle. His son turns him into a radio heartthrob, however, when he makes an on-air appeal to potential partners for his grief-stricken father. Annie Reed (Meg Ryan), ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 25,153 members
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  • A Few Good Men on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Tom Cruise,  Demi Moore
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is a Navy lawyer assigned to defend two men who accidentally killed a Private by asphyxiating him with a towel. Initially working out a quick and easy plea bargain with the prosecuting lawyer (Kevin Bacon), Kaffee is persuaded to investigate the case further by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 19,898 members
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  • A Few Good Men - Blu-ray (1992)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Tom Cruise,  Demi Moore
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) is a Navy lawyer assigned to defend two men who accidentally killed a Private by asphyxiating him with a towel. Initially working out a quick and easy plea bargain with the prosecuting lawyer (Kevin Bacon), Kaffee is persuaded to investigate the case further by ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 2,083 members
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  • The Return Of Spinal Tap (1992)
    Starring: Christopher Guest,  Harry Shearer,  Michael McKean
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    They're back, and they're one louder. Spinal Tap return with this feature-length 'rockumentary', in which the band members - Nigel Tufnel, David St Hubbins and Derek Smalls - reveal where they are now, and take us back to where it all began; Squatney, London. Also on hand are familiar faces from ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 397 members
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  • Misery on DVD (1990)
    Starring: James Caan,  Richard Farnsworth,  Kathy Bates
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Adapted from a Stephen King novel, Rob Reiner's Misery cast James Caan as a writer at a career crossroads. The film opens with Paul Sheldon (Caan) completing work on his latest novel, a break from his popular series of novels featuring the character Misery Chastain. He gets into a severe car ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 19,640 members
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  • Misery - Blu-ray (1990)
    Starring: James Caan,  Richard Farnsworth,  Kathy Bates
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Sick of his 19th Century romantic heroine, Misery Chastain, novelist Paul Sheldon (James Caan) kills her off and writes a more personal, modern novel. When his car crashes in remote mountains he is saved by 'number one fan' Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates), who adores Misery and has even named her pig ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 124 members
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  • When Harry Met Sally on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Billy Crystal,  Bruno Kirby,  Lisa Jane Persky
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) first meet as students, when they share a disagreeable drive from Chicago to New York. Over the course of the next ten years they keep bumping into each other at various intervals, which generally seem to coincide with one of them having an emotional ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 23,077 members
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  • The Princess Bride - Blu-ray (1987)
    Starring: Peter Falk,  Peter Cook,  Billy Crystal
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Comical fantasy tale of beautiful princesses, foul villains and dashing heroes from director Rob Reiner. The Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright Penn) is saddened by the disappearance of her true-love Westley (Cary Elwes), and finds that she now has no choice but to become engaged to the evil Prince ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 761 members
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  • The Princess Bride on DVD (1987)
    Starring: Peter Falk,  Peter Cook,  Billy Crystal
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Comical fantasy tale of beautiful princesses, foul villains and dashing heroes from director Rob Reiner. The Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright Penn) is saddened by the disappearance of her true-love Westley (Cary Elwes), and finds that she now has no choice but to become engaged to the evil Prince ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 32,430 members
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  • Stand by Me on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Casey Siemaszko,  Jason Oliver,  Richard Dreyfuss
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Based on the Stephen King short story The Body, Rob Reiner's easygoing nostalgia piece is set in Castle Rock, OR, over Labor Day weekend, 1959. A quartet of boys, inseparable friends all, set out in search of a dead body that one of the boys overhears his brother talking about. The foursome ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 36,929 members
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  • Stand by Me - Blu-ray (1986)
    Starring: Casey Siemaszko,  Jason Oliver,  Richard Dreyfuss
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Upon hearing that an old friend has died, a writer (Richard Dreyfuss) reminisces about his childhood in the Fifties. As a twelve-year-old boy, Gordie's (Will Wheaton) friends consisted of 'bad' kid Chris (River Phoenix), Teddy (Corey Feldman) and the pudgy Vern (Jerry O'Conell). When the latter ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 1,236 member
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  • The Sure Thing on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Viveca Lindfors,  John Cusack,  Tim Robbins
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A romantic comedy from director Rob Reiner, who went on to make 'When Harry Met Sally'. Gib (John Cusack) is promised a devastating woman at a party across the country in Los Angeles. The only problem is that he has to share the car journey with prudish Alison (Daphne Zuniga), a fellow student ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 8,448 members
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  • This Is Spinal Tap on DVD (1984)
    Starring: Billy Crystal,  Christopher Guest,  Ed Begley
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ageing Brit-rockers Spinal Tap embark on a tour of the United States, hampered by the usual tour hassles - banned albums, technical problems, a diminutive Stonehenge, spontaneously combusting drummers... Rob Reiner's 'rockumentary' spoofs the genre and is reliably reported to be popular viewing in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 25,405 members
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  • This Is Spinal Tap - Blu-ray (1984)
    Starring: Billy Crystal,  Christopher Guest,  Ed Begley
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Ageing Brit-rockers Spinal Tap embark on a tour of the United States, hampered by the usual tour hassles - banned albums, technical problems, a diminutive Stonehenge, spontaneously combusting drummers... Rob Reiner's 'rockumentary' spoofs the genre and is reliably reported to be popular viewing in ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,339 member
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  • Saturday Night Live - Series 1 - Complete (8 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Laraine Newman,  Jane Curtain,  Elliott Gould
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    All 24 episodes from the first season of the US comedy sketch show. Features appearances from Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtain, Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, George Carlin, Rob Reiner, Lily Tomlin, Richard Pryor, Elliott Gould and Candace Bergen.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 169 members
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  • Rumour Has It... - Blu-ray
    Starring: Jennifer Aniston,  Kevin Costner,  Shirley MacLaine
    Director: Rob Reiner
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Aniston stars as Sarah Huttinger, whose return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country-club lifestyle of her family isn't for her, and that maybe the Huttinger family isn't even hers. Join sarah as she uncovers secrets that suggest that her family are neither sedate nor ..read more »
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Rob Reiner facts

5 most recent films

The Magic of Belle Isle - 3.5 stars
Flipped - 3.5 stars
The Bucket List - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Bucket List - 3.5 stars
Everyone's Hero - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Misery - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Curb Your Enthusiasm - Series 2 - 4.0 stars
The Princess Bride - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Stand by Me - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Stand by Me - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Ultimate 80s Collection - Vol. 1 - 2.0 stars
All in the Family - 2.5 stars
North - 3.5 stars
The Magic of Belle Isle - 3.5 stars
When Harry Met Sally - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Billy Crystal - 18 times - show films
Christopher Guest - 13 times - show films
Meg Ryan - 9 times - show films
Michael McKean - 9 times - show films
Jack Nicholson - 9 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 6 times - show films
Nora Ephron - 3 times - show films
Hugh Wilson - 2 times - show films
Woody Allen - 1 times - show films
Walt - 1 times - show films