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After breaking out in the ’70s as an actor on the Vietnam-era sitcom “All in the Family,” Rob Reiner turned to directing a string of movies in the ’80s and early ’90s that became fixtures in the pop culture canon, films that fans continue to watch and quote endlessly, from “This Is Spinal Tap” (“why don’t you just make 10 louder?“) to “The Princess Bride” (“as you wish”).The seven feature films Reiner directed between 1984 and 1992 also demonstrated the range that he would bring to the rest of his career: t ...