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Robert Leighton is a Editor British born on 2000 at London (United-kingdom)

Robert Leighton

Robert Leighton
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 2000 (25 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Robert Leighton is a British film editor who resides in the United States. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for the feature film, A Few Good Men starring Tom Cruise, Jack Nicolson and Demi Moore. He has had an extended collaboration with film director Rob Reiner over more than twenty-five years. In the last decade he has also edited several films with Christopher Guest. He has edited hit comedies and mockumentaries such as This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show and When Harry Met Sally as well as classic dramas such as Stand by Me and the Stephen King thriller, Misery, which garnered actress Kathy Bates a "Best Actress" Oscar.

Best films

Now You See Me (2013)
(Editor)
A Few Good Men (1992)
(Editor)
The Bucket List (2008)
(Editor)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
(Editor)
Misery (1990)
(Editor)
Stand by Me (1986)
(Editor)

Usually with

Rob Reiner
Rob Reiner
(15 films)
Marc Shaiman
Marc Shaiman
(11 films)
Robert Eber
Robert Eber
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Robert Leighton (35 films)

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Editor

A Dog's Purpose, 1h38
Directed by Lasse Hallström
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Britt Robertson, Dennis Quaid, K.J. Apa, Bradley Cooper, Peggy Lipton, Juliet Rylance
Roles Editor
Rating72% 3.607663.607663.607663.607663.60766
Toby est un chien (Josh Gad) qui se réincarne plusieurs fois. Il va connaitre diverses situations de vie en se rappelant combien il aimait son premier maître...
The Intern
The Intern (2015)
, 2h1
Directed by Nancy Meyers
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Adam DeVine, Rene Russo, Reid Scott, Zack Pearlman
Roles Editor
Rating71% 3.5511053.5511053.5511053.5511053.551105
70-year-old widower Ben Whitaker (Robert De Niro), a retired executive at a phone directory company, applies to a senior citizen intern program after retirement has gotten too boring for him. The company he applies to is About the Fit, a fast-growing e-commerce fashion company, whose founder and CEO Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway) had previously agreed to a community outreach program where seniors will intern at the firm. Ben impresses everyone and is one of four hired.
Chef
Chef (2014)
, 1h54
Directed by Jon Favreau
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Cooking films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Robert Downey Jr., Jon Favreau, Scarlett Johansson, Sofía Vergara, Dustin Hoffman, John Leguizamo
Roles Editor
Rating72% 3.6485953.6485953.6485953.6485953.648595
Miami-born Carl Casper is the head chef of Gauloise in Brentwood, California. While popular with his kitchen staff and hostess Molly, the restaurant owner Riva wants Carl to stick to tired "classics" rather than innovative dishes. Carl has a strained relationship with his tech-savvy preteen son Percy and rich ex-wife Inez.
Now You See Me, 1h55
Directed by Louis Leterrier
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Mélanie Laurent, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco
Roles Editor
Rating72% 3.6010353.6010353.6010353.6010353.601035
Four gifted street magicians—J. Daniel "Danny" Atlas, Merritt McKinney, Henley Reeves, and Jack Wilder—are brought together by an unknown benefactor and, one year later, are performing in Las Vegas as "The Four Horsemen," sponsored by insurance magnate Arthur Tressler. For the finale of their first show, they declare they will rob a bank, and invite audience member Étienne Forcier, an account holder at the Crédit Républicain de Paris, to do it. Forcier is apparently teleported to his bank in France, where he activates an air duct that vacuums up the money and showers it onto the Las Vegas crowd. Upon the discovery that the money really is missing from the bank vault, FBI agent Dylan Rhodes is called to investigate the theft and is partnered with Interpol agent Alma Dray. They arrest the Horsemen, but are forced to release them due to lack of evidence.
People Like Us, 1h54
Directed by Alex Kurtzman
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Chris Pine, Elizabeth Banks, Olivia Wilde, Jon Favreau, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mark Duplass
Roles Editor
Rating69% 3.498313.498313.498313.498313.49831
Sam Harper (Chris Pine), a struggling corporate trader in New York City, is in trouble after one of his deals violates federal law and the Federal Trade Commission threatens him with an investigation. Sam's boss (Jon Favreau) urges him to bribe federal officials, at Sam's own expense. Returning home, Sam learns from his girlfriend Hannah (Olivia Wilde) that Jerry, his estranged father and record-producer, has died in L.A. of cancer. Sam tries to avoid attending the funeral, but Hannah insists on making arrangements. After flying home to L.A., he stays with Hannah at Jerry's house and has a tense reunion with his mother Lillian (Michelle Pfeiffer).
Flipped
Flipped (2010)
, 1h30
Directed by Rob Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Madeline Carroll, Callan McAuliffe, Rebecca De Mornay, Morgan Lily, Anthony Edwards, John Mahoney
Roles Editor
Rating77% 3.854243.854243.854243.854243.85424
In 1957, when second-graders Bryce Loski and Julianna "Juli" Baker first meet, Juli knows it's love, but Bryce isn't so sure. Girl-phobic and easily embarrassed, young Bryce does everything he can to keep away as much as possible from Juli for the next six years, which isn't easy since they go to the same school and live across the street from each other. When they start the sixth grade, Bryce hopes that he can get rid of Juli so he asks the girl Juli hates the most, Sherry Stalls, out on a date. This plan of Bryce's works for a while up until his best friend, Garrett, takes an interest in Sherry and tells her the truth about Bryce asking her out, she doesn't take it well and angrily slaps Bryce (which Juli watches with amusement from the door). Juli finds out Bryce and Sherry break up; she goes back to her regular Bryce-obsessed self.
Gone with the Pope
Directed by Duke Mitchell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Duke Mitchell
Rating62% 3.1360353.1360353.1360353.1360353.136035
The movie tells the story of four ex-convicts who journey to Rome to attempt to kidnap the Pope, planning to charge a ransom of "a dollar from every Catholic in the world."
The Bucket List, 1h33
Directed by Rob Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Medical-themed films, Films about Tibet, Transport films, Films about cancer, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, Rob Morrow, Beverly Todd, Alfonso Freeman
Roles Editor
Rating73% 3.6984453.6984453.6984453.6984453.698445
Blue-collar mechanic Carter Chambers (Freeman) and billionaire hospital magnate Edward Cole (Nicholson) meet for the first time in the hospital after both have been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer. Although Edward is reluctant to share a room with Carter, complaining that he "looks half-dead already", they become friends as they undergo their respective treatments.
For Your Consideration, 1h26
Directed by Christopher Guest
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Documentary
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about television, LGBT-related films, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Jennifer Coolidge, Stephen Rannazzisi, Eugene Levy, John Michael Higgins
Roles Editor
Rating62% 3.14753.14753.14753.14753.1475
Character actress Marilyn Hack (O'Hara), despite having been in the industry for 30 years, is best known for playing a blind prostitute in a film from the late 1980s. Victor Allen Miller (Shearer) is also an acting veteran who is known to the public as the hot-dog wearing mascot for a kosher line of frankfurters. Together they are cast in a new low-budget film called Home for Purim as the patriarch and dying matriarch of a Southern U.S. Jewish family in the 1940s.
Rumor Has It..., 1h36
Directed by Rob Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Ruffalo, Richard Jenkins, Mena Suvari
Roles Editor
Rating55% 2.751512.751512.751512.751512.75151
In 1997, Sarah Huttinger (Jennifer Aniston), an obituary and wedding announcement writer for The New York Times, travels to Pasadena, California, for her sister Annie's (Mena Suvari) wedding, accompanied by her fiancé Jeff Daly (Mark Ruffalo). At a pre-wedding party, Sarah learns from her grandmother Katharine (Shirley MacLaine) that her mother Jocelyn ran off to Cabo San Lucas to spend time with her prep school classmate Beau Burroughs (Kevin Costner) the week before her wedding to Sarah's father Earl (Richard Jenkins). Jeff points out Sarah's parents were married just short of nine months before her birth, leading her to wonder if Beau might really be her biological father. Sarah also discovers her grandmother might have been the inspiration for Mrs. Robinson, an infamous character in the novel The Graduate.
Shall We Dance?, 1h46
Directed by Peter Chelsom
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about sexuality, Sports films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Richard Gere, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Lisa Ann Walter, Richard Jenkins
Roles Editor
Rating62% 3.102293.102293.102293.102293.10229
John Clark (Richard Gere) is a lawyer with a charming wife (Beverly, played by Susan Sarandon) and loving family, who nevertheless feels that something is missing as he makes his way every day through the city. Each evening on his commute home through Chicago, John sees a beautiful woman staring with a lost expression through the window of a dance studio. Haunted by her gaze, John impulsively jumps off the train one night, and signs up for ballroom dancing lessons, hoping to meet her.
A Mighty Wind, 1h31
Directed by Christopher Guest
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Bob Balaban, Catherine O'Hara, Ed Begley Jr., Michael McKean, Larry Miller, Harry Shearer
Roles Editor
Rating71% 3.5979453.5979453.5979453.5979453.597945
The film is structured as mockumentary about a memorial concert for (fictional) folk music producer Irving Steinbloom. Upon his death, his children organize a concert, which they hope to feature his three most famous acts: The Folksmen, The New Main Street Singers, and Mitch & Mickey.
Alex & Emma, 1h36
Directed by Rob Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Kate Hudson, Luke Wilson, Sophie Marceau, David Paymer, Rob Reiner, Paul Willson
Roles Editor
Rating54% 2.7490452.7490452.7490452.7490452.749045
Alex Sheldon (Luke Wilson) finds himself in a tricky situation. Locked in his creative process, he is entrapped in a disastrous economic situation: he is ruined, and he must repay a US$100,000 debt to the Cuban mafia. He is given a 30-day ultimatum to repay the money he owes them or they will kill him. And the only solution to this big problem is to finish his novel. Or rather, to start it, since he has not written one single line. But he has an idea for the story: A comedy about "the powerlessness of being in love, how love devours the insides of a person like a deadly virus".
Best in Show, 1h30
Directed by Christopher Guest
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about animals, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about dogs, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jay Brazeau, Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, John Michael Higgins, Michael McKean
Roles Editor
Rating74% 3.747333.747333.747333.747333.74733
Best in Show is presented as a documentary of five dogs and their owners destined to show in the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show, held in Philadelphia. The documentary jumps among owners as they prepare to leave for the show, arrive at the hotel, and prepare backstage before their dog takes the show, as well as post-show. The owners and their dogs include:
The Story of Us, 1h35
Directed by Rob Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Bruce Willis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Red Buttons, Colleen Rennison, Tim Matheson, Jake Sandvig
Roles Editor
Rating60% 3.000383.000383.000383.000383.00038
Ben Jordan (Bruce Willis) and his wife Katie (Michelle Pfeiffer) have been married for fifteen years; they have two children, Erin (Colleen Rennison) and Josh (Jake Sandvig), a nice home and a comfortable life. Their happy marriage, however, turns into a sham—a performance they deliver daily for the benefit of their children, while behind the scenes they cannot stand each other anymore. Sending their kids off to summer camp, Ben and Katie commence a trial separation, during which both try to recall what it is about the other that led them to fall in love in the first place.