Rob Reiner (second from l.) poses with wife Michele and his three children including Nick (far right) at the 41st Annual Chaplin Award Gala at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on April 28, 2014 in New York City. Nick Reiner is reportedly a suspect in the homicide of his parents. Michael Loccisano/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on X Google Preferred Share to Flipboard Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Send an Email Print the Article Post a Comment On Sunday evening, People magazine reported that Nick Reiner was responsible for the Brentwood homicide of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, while the New York Post said that the 32-year-old is a person of interest in the killings. Law enforcement has not confirmed the outlets' reporting. If Nick Reiner is ultimately alleged to be a suspect, however, it would not mark the first time that tension between the son and his parents has come into the public eye. Ten years ago, Rob and Nick actually made a movie about the challenges the Reiners faced. Related Stories Movies Rob Reiner's Best Films: From 'Spinal Tap,' 'Misery,' and 'Princess Bride' to 'When Harry Met Sally' and 'A Few Good Men' News Two People Found Dead at Rob Reiner's House in Los Angeles; LAPD Investigating "Apparent Homicide" The younger Reiner has long struggled with addiction. The family's 2015 film drama, Being Charlie, documented the resultant struggles, with Nick co-writing the script with a friend from rehab that was inspired by his experiences and Rob directing the movie, drawing off his experience as a parent. Produced and sanctioned by the family, the movie offers an unusually authentic glimpse into what was happening in the Reiner household in those years as Nick's challenges grew. Carey Elwes played the Rob stand-in and Nick Robinson the Nick Reiner character. Premiering at TIFF in September 2015 ahead of a release the next year on Starz, Charlie centers on Charlie Mills, the 18-year-old addict son of David , a movie star who is now running for Congress. Charlie resents the harsh way his father and mother are treating his addiction, which involves mandatory stints in rehab. The movie offers few answers. And it ends with a certain détente, and an apology from the dad for a sometimes-unsympathetic way he treated his son - an apology Reiner said in an interview at TIFF that he owed and gave to his son in real life. "When Nick would tell us that it wasn't working for him, we wouldn't listen. We were desperate and because the people had diplomas on their wall, we listened to them when we should have been listening to our son," the Princess Bride director told the L.A. Times at a dinner at the festival with a reporter and his family, including Nick, who had by then achieved sobriety. Michele added: "We were so influenced by these people. They would tell us he's a liar, that he was trying to manipulate us. And we believed them." Nick, who didn't say much at the dinner, did note that at some point as an addict, "I got sick of it. I got sick of doing that. ... I come from a nice family. I'm not supposed to be out there on the streets and in homeless shelters doing all these ... things." (The Hollywood Reporter's review said the pair "clearly used this as a way to work through how 22-year-old Nick Reiner's own drug problems affected their family.) In a post-screening Q&A, Rob said that "we didn't set out for it to be cathartic or for it to be therapeutic, but it turned out to be that," when asked by a festgoer about their relationship. Nick did not respond to that question. A moment later Rob said "there were disagreements" and "at times it was really rough" when the pair were trying to figure out how to depict the reality of their relationship in the movie. Nick said, "Sometimes it would get overwhelming for me." The movie is on YouTube and late Sunday night became a kind of de facto place for people to come and debate how parents relate to addict kids, with viewers alternately expressing sympathy for the father and the son. A scene in which Charlie angrily confronts his father at his family home is painful to watch, and if law enforcement concludes Nick is the suspect, it would not be surprising if YouTube decided to remove the film. Rob Reiner said that, at the time of production, their relationship had changed for the better. "To be honest, by the time we got to the point of making the movie it didn't matter if we actually did. Because our relationship had gotten so much closer." Still, Nick did not seem as engaged with the interview as one might have expected, and a reporter came away feeling that the elder Reiner's expression of closure was an aspiration that had not been fully achieved. THR's review also concluded that the film featured "two warring agendas, aligned neatly with the father and son positions expressed therein. The son/addict side wants to skewer some of the pieties