Jerry O'Connell admitted to getting "emotional" as Nick Reiner faces murder charges in connection with the deaths of his parents, movie director Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. O'Connell, 52, got his big break in Rob's 1986 hit movie, Stand by Me, costarring Wil Wheaton, Corey Feldman and the late River Phoenix, and previously described Rob as being like a "father to me.