Starting out as a comedy actor, Rob (son of Carl) really made his impact
with a series of witty, satirical comedies in the early to mid-1980s,
most notably This Is Spinal Tap. Through the late 1980s and 1990s, his
films became increasingly slick commercial fodder, culminating in
the Tom Cruise / Demi Moore / Jack Nicholson courtroom pot-boiler A Few
Good Men. Reiner now finds himself in limbo: unable to produce cutting
edge commercial product like Misery, and lacking the bite and hunger of
his early work, he cannot generate good box office or critical
reception.
