Michael TronickFilmography

Bedtime Stories

Crew: Editor

Actors: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell, Guy Pearce, Russell Brand, Richard Griffiths

Synopsis: The Pacifier director Adam Shankman helms this children's fantasy concerning a hotel handyman who gradually begins to realize that the imaginative bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew are somehow beginning to manifest themselves in the real world. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert

Crew: Editor

Actors: Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, Kenny Ortega, Billy Ray Cyrus

Synopsis: Fans of Miley Cyrus and her pop-star alter ego on her series Hannah Montana get the best of both worlds with this live concert film. Shot during her 54-city musical tour, this concert captures Cyrus performing both as herself and as Hannah. She perform a handful of song with The Jonas Brothers. Read More

Hairspray

Crew: Editor

Actors: John Travolta, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Amanda Bynes, James Marsden

Synopsis: Adam Shankman's adaptation of the stage musical Hairspray, itself an adaptation of the non-musical John Waters film of the same name, stars Nikki Blonsky as Tracy Turnblad, an overweight high-school student whose only dream is to be on a local Baltimore teen dance program. While her father (Christopher Walken Read More

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Crew: Editor

Actors: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Vince Vaughn, Adam Brody, Kerry Washington

Synopsis: Many married couples have secrets, but one pair of lovebirds discover they've both been living dangerous secret lives in this action thriller laced with comedy. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and play Jane Smith and John Smith, a suburban couple whose marriage has started to go a bit stale after Read More

The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing

Actors: James Cameron, Joe Dante, Dede Allen, Jerry Bruckheimer, Conrad Buff, Donn Cambern, Richard Chew, Anne V. Coates, Rob Cohen, Chris Columbus, Wes Craven, Jodie Foster, Antony Gibbs, Mark Goldblatt, Paul Hirsch, Alan Heim, Tina Hirsch, Peter Honess, Joe Hutshing, Michael Kahn, Lawrence Kasdan, Chris Lebenzon, Carol Littleton, George Lucas, Richard Marks, Craig McKay, Sally Menke, Anthony Minghella, Walter Murch, Alexander Payne, Sean Penn, Tom Rolf, Pietro Scalia, Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Steven Spielberg, Zach Staenberg, Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Tent, Michael Tronick, Frank J. Urioste, Paul Verhoeven, Jay Cassidy, Howard E. Smith, Kevin Tichenor, Kathy Bates

Synopsis: The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Editing teaches the viewer how editors compile strips of film in order to create memorable moviegoing experiences. In addition to interviews with a variety of respected and award-winning editors, the movie offers clips form some of the most memorable films in the Read More

S.W.A.T.

Crew: Editor

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, LL Cool J, Josh Charles, Jeremy Renner, Brian Van Holt, Olivier Martinez, James DuMont, Michael Ealy, Matt Gerald, Page Kennedy, Benjamin King

Synopsis: Clark Johnson's big-screen adaptation of the 1970s television series S.W.A.T. stars Colin Farrell as Jim Street, a young special weapons and tactics team member who, in the film's opening sequence, is demoted after his hothead partner Jeremy Renner shoots a hostage while trying to kill her captor. Read More

The Scorpion King

Crew: Associate Producer, Editor

Actors: The Rock, Steven Brand, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kelly Hu, Bernard Hill

Synopsis: The Rock has his first starring role in this prequel to The Mummy films, which was developed while The Mummy Returns was still in production. The film takes place in ancient times, when a mighty swordsman, Memnon (Steven Brand, making his film debut) ruled over nearly all the known world. Memnon Read More

American Outlaws

Crew: Editor

Actors: Colin Farrell, Scott Caan, Ali Larter, Gabriel Macht, Gregory Smith, Harris Yulin, Will McCormack, Kathy Bates, Timothy Dalton

Synopsis: This loosely fact-based oater attempts to mimic the youthful heartthrobs in Western garb formula of Young Guns (1988), as well as the cheeky humor and some plot elements of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). Colin Farrell stars as Jesse James, who returns home from the Civil War to his Read More

Remember the Titans

Crew: Editor

Actors: Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Donald Faison, Wood Harris, Ryan Hurst

Synopsis: A high school football coach finds himself fighting for stakes much higher than the State Championship in this drama based on actual events. In 1971, a court order forces three high schools in Alexandria, Virginia (two white, one African-American), to integrate their student bodies and faculties Read More

Blue Streak

Crew: Editor

Actors: Crystal Chappell, Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Peter Greene, Dave Chappelle, William Forsythe, Graham Beckel

Synopsis: Can a crook go straight without really trying? Jewel thief Miles Logan (Martin Lawrence) was being chased by the police after a robbery when he was forced to hide a cache of diamonds, worth $20 million, at a construction site. Despite his caution, Miles ended up behind bars anyway; after serving Read More

Meet Joe Black

Crew: Editor

Actors: Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Claire Forlani, Jake Weber, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: The cycle of life on Earth hangs in the balance when Death becomes emotionally involved in this romantic fantasy. William Parrish (Anthony Hopkins) is a tremendously wealthy and powerful man who oversees a worldwide multi-media empire. Despite the loss of his wife, whom he dearly loved, William is Read More

Volcano

Crew: Editor

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle, Jacqueline Kim

Synopsis: Disaster visits jaded L.A. in the form of an underground volcano, not the big earthquake all the citizens expect. Shot on the largest set ever constructed in the U.S., in nearby Torrance, California, Volcano is a big-budget, special-effects-laden disaster movie with a standard plot. Tommy Lee Jones Read More

Eraser

Crew: Editor

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Caan, Vanessa Williams, James Coburn, Robert Pastorelli

Synopsis: Top-notch action sequences and exciting stunt work highlight this fast-moving thriller. John Kruger (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a top agent in the U.S. Marshalls' Witness Protection Program; it's his job to "erase" the pasts of Federal witnesses under his watch and deal with anyone who tries to Read More

Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

Crew: Editor

Actors: Steven Seagal, Eric Bogosian, Katherine Heigl, Everett McGill, Nick Mancuso, Morris Chestnut

Synopsis: In the original box-office smash Under Siege, action hero Steven Seagal played Casey Ryback, a U.S. Navy SEAL who saved the world from nuclear destruction by outsmarting and killing off terrorists who had commandeered a submarine. In this sequel, Seagal's Ryback character does the same sort of Read More

The Cowboy Way

Crew: Editor

Actors: Woody Harrelson, Kiefer Sutherland, Dylan McDermott, Ernie Hudson, Cara Buono

Synopsis: In this action comedy, director Gregg Champion relies on the premise that, indeed, "country boys can survive," as Sonny (Kiefer Sutherland) and Pepper (Woody Harrelson, always game) head off to the Big Apple in order to rescue a mutual friend's daughter from the clutches of an evil sweatshop Read More

True Romance

Crew: Editor

Actors: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt

Synopsis: Quentin Tarantino scripted this wild and wooly blend of action and dark comedy, which reached theaters a year before his breakthrough hit Pulp Fiction. Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) is a well-meaning but socially unskilled comic-shop clerk whose idea of a big night out is catching a Sonny Chiba Read More

Scent of a Woman

Crew: Editor

Actors: Al Pacino, Chris O'Donnell, James Rebhorn, Gabrielle Anwar, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: Driven by an extravagant, tour-de-force performance by Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman is the story of Frank Slade (Pacino), a blind, retired army colonel who hires Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell), a poor college student on the verge of expulsion, to take care of him over Thanksgiving weekend. At the Read More

Straight Talk

Crew: Editor

Actors: Dolly Parton, James Woods, Griffin Dunne, Jerry Orbach, Michael Madsen, Deirdre O'Connell

Synopsis: Dolly Parton and James Woods as the screen's hottest new romantic team? That's only one of several casting surprises in this romantic comedy. Shirlee Kenyon (Dolly Parton) has had enough of life in her small Arkansas town, not to mention her small-minded Arkansas boyfriend Steve (Michael Madsen). Read More

Hudson Hawk

Crew: Editor

Actors: Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, Sandra Bernhard, Richard E. Grant, James Coburn

Synopsis: Michael Lehmann directed this post-modernist hash of To Catch a Thief and The Naked Gun starring Bruce Willis as Hudson Hawk, a cat burglar who wants to go straight, but the circumstances won't allow it. The story begins in a pre-credit sequence that takes place in the renaissance. Leonardo Da Read More

The Marrying Man

Crew: Editor

Actors: Kim Basinger, Alec Baldwin, Robert Loggia, Elisabeth Shue, Armand Assante

Synopsis: Neil Simon forgoes his typical urban East Coast kvetchers and replaces them with sunny Californian kvetchers in The Marrying Man, a film which became a beacon of gossip in 1991 due to the alleged shenanigans of stars Alec Baldwin and {$Kim Basinger), who fell in love during production. Simon based Read More

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

Crew: Editor

Actors: Andrew Dice Clay, Wayne Newton, Priscilla Presley, Morris Day, Lauren Holly

Synopsis: Controversial and often offensive stand-up comedian Andrew Dice Clay made his debut as a feature film star in this crude comedy. Fairlane is a "rock and roll detective" who works in the music business, has an office on Sunset Boulevard, and drives a 1957 Ford, with clothing to match. He floats Read More

Mothers, Daughters and Lovers

Crew: Editor

Actors: Perrey Reeves, Helen Shaver, Marcianne Warman

Synopsis: Evil land developers, those most ubiquitous of 1980s movie villains, are the chief antagonists in the made-for-TV Mothers, Daughters and Lovers. Helen Shaver plays a truckstop/motel owner in the rural Northwest. She manages her business with the help of her two budding teenaged daughters--one Read More

Midnight Run

Crew: Editor

Actors: Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Dennis Farina

Synopsis: Director Martin Brest, of Going in Style and Beverly Hills Cop fame, was in charge of Midnight Run. Robert De Niro stars as Jack Walsh, a hard-bitten bounty hunter offered $100,000 to bring in embezzler Jonathan Mardukas (Charles Grodin). Handcuffed to the wimpy Mardukas, Walsh assumes that the Read More

Side by Side

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: Three giants of early television--Milton Berle, Sid Caesar and Danny Thomas--combine their talents in the made-for-TV Side by Side. Berle and Caesar play a couple of 65-year-olds who've just been forcibly retired; Thomas portrays a widower, who's been aimless and lethargic since the death of his Read More

Less Than Zero

Crew: Editor

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Jami Gertz, Robert Downey, Jr., James Spader, Michael Bowen

Synopsis: This drama about affluent Los Angeles teens is taken from the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Clay (Andrew McCarthy) is a college freshman who returns home during Christmas break. Clay's old flame Blair (Jamie Gertz) is now more interested in her new beau Julian (Robert Downey, Jr.), the fun-loving Read More

Beverly Hills Cop II

Crew: Editor

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jürgen Prochnow, Ronny Cox, John Ashton

Synopsis: Detroit cop Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) has seemingly smoothed out his differences with his Beverly Hills superior Bogomil (Ronny Cox), but there's trouble ahead for both men, not to mention two other holdovers from the first Cop film, officers Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and Taggart (John Ashton). Read More

Streets of Fire

Crew: Editor

Actors: Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis, Amy Madigan, Willem Dafoe

Synopsis: More like a series of MTV sequences than a long-term narration, this super-thin story line focuses on a kidnapped singer (Diane Lane) and her ex-boyfriend (Michael Pare) who goes forth to save her through rainy streets, the roar of elevated subways, several alleys, and the usual warehouses. Each Read More

Star 80

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Eric Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Carroll Baker, Roger Rees

Synopsis: Director Bob Fosse's fact-based tale of Playboy centerfold Dorothy Stratten's short life and gruesome death focuses less on Stratten (played by Mariel Hemingway) than on her husband/manager, sleazoid pornographer and all-around failure Paul Snider (Eric Roberts, ideally cast). He sees the young Read More