By Grand Rapids Anonymous
monday, december 15, 2025 at 1:28:00 a.m. est
Drugs, drugs, drugs--Nick Reiner was a longtime drug addict
GRA: Some photos, the kid looks lgtbq too.
In a 2016 interview with PEOPLE, Nick spoke about his years-long struggle with drug addiction, which began in his early teens and eventually left him living on the streets. He said he cycled in and out of rehab beginning around age 15, but as his addiction escalated, he drifted farther from home and spent significant stretches homeless in multiple states.
He had moved back home and said he was, "getting acclimated to being home again."
GRA: Inviting an addict--even your own offspring--into your home is always a huge risk. He's lost his mind to some degree and killing becomes another choice--like: "Should I have coffee today? Should I kill my parents?"
A lesson for others. The Reiners should have known better, but they cared too much and their son saw the weakness, and used it to do something his drug-damaged mind ordered him to do.
--GRA
By Jerry PDX
monday, december 15, 2025 at 9:40:00 a.m. est
Absolutely right, a hard-core addict cares about one thing and one thing only, getting that next high, and will let nothing stand in his way. I get this was their son and the emotional entanglements were powerful, but at some point you have to be realistic about what you are dealing with. An addict capable of patricide and matricide would have given off plenty of red flags before, but far-left liberals like Reiner have a harder time admitting truth and taking a tough love approach than more realistic people.
Liberals love concepts like the "theory of addiction as a disease," which only enables addiction, making it worse, and this kid was the type that needed to be cut off completely until he got cleaned up. I don't mean to come off as callous, and politicize Reiner and his wife being murdered, but the fact is, he was a liberal and liberalism is one of the reasons drug addiction has become so extremely damaging in this country. Condolences to the family, and while his politics were always annoying, I'll always have fond memories of him as "Meathead," and great movies like When Harry met Sally, The Princess Bride, and This is Spinal Tap.
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Irregardless of politics, I don't get all the accolades about him being "one of the all time greats," and a genius director who made so many wonderful movies. SPINAL TAP was funny and clever but hardly earth-shaking. PRINCESS BRIDE didn't make the impression on me it seems to have made on everybody else; people say it's very quotable, but that's the writer's doing, not Reiner's (I think William Goldman wrote it); MISERY must be his best effort, I thought it was a good story, very well-done; HARRY AND SALLY is something I wouldn't watch even if I had a thousand more years to live; STAND BY ME, if it's the movie I think it is, was a vile piece of garbage that I turned off after about 10 minutes: a Stephen King snipe at the 1950s, in which he dishonestly depicts children of that era as foul-mouthed little punks who blast horrid rock music from their transistor radios. NO WAY.
As far as I can gauge, a competent director who could make a good movie out of good material, which is no great feat. And as an actor, he'll always be known for one thing: playing a role which was basically himself.
And he was a horrible human being.
-RM
Movie quality right now is so low that people in 2025,comparing current films to the Reiner "golden years" makes Reiner look like a combination Howard Hawks,Hitchcock and John Ford.
And he was a commie.
--GRA
Btw,I missed seeing most of those flicks mentioned,but did catch "When Billy Crystal Overacted With Meg Ryan" in the theater. Crystal's character(and Crystal himself)was very irritating and the back and forth of the relationship seemed unrealistic. If they didn't get along the first three times they met,that should have been it. People move on.Not much to laugh at,except for the restaurant scene.
"A Few Good Men",was very entertaining,but I'm a Nicholson fan.
--GRA
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