---
name: "Jane Kurson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jane-kurson"
fi1m_id: "jane-kurson"
imdb_id: "nm0475957"
tmdb_id: 6900
wikidata_id: "Q63115097"
roles: ["Editor"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-04T21:36:32.408824+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Jane Kurson

## Identity

Jane Kurson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jane-kurson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jane-kurson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0475957
- **TMDB ID:** 6900
- **Wikidata ID:** Q63115097
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Kurson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63115097, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475957/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6900

Editor.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Active:** 1986–2003
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 72 (2), 1990s 70 (1)
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 2, Comedy 2, Adventure 1, Drama 1, Family 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $381m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Kurson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q63115097, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475957/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6900

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Beetlejuice*](https://film.one/film/beetlejuice.md) (83)
- **Netflix:** [*The Karate Kid Part II*](https://film.one/film/the-karate-kid-part-ii.md) (62)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jane Kurson is an American film editor whose career spans from the late 1970s to the present. She began in editorial roles as an assistant editor on *Pumping Iron* (1977) and progressed to associate editor on *The Formula* (1980) before taking lead editing credits.

Her feature film credits include *Don't Go in the House* (1979), *Neighbors* (1981), *The Karate Kid Part II* (1986), *Beetlejuice* (1988), *Hot Shots!* (1991), *Bad Girls* (1994) and *Monster* (2003). She has collaborated repeatedly with directors John G. Avildsen and Jonathan Kaplan. Kurson has also worked in television and received a Primetime Emmy Award.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Hot Shots!* (1991), Fi1m 70, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/hot-shots.md)
- *Beetlejuice* (1988), Fi1m 83, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/beetlejuice.md)
- *The Karate Kid Part II* (1986), Fi1m 62, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-karate-kid-part-ii.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Perfect Opposites* (2004), Editor
- *Monster* (2003), Editor
- *Welcome to Hollywood* (2000), Editor
- *It Had to Be You* (2000), Editor
- *Bed of Roses* (1996), Editor
- *Bad Girls* (1994), Editor
- *Amos & Andrew* (1993), Editor
- *Love Field* (1992), Editor
- *Hot Shots!* (1991), Editor — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/hot-shots.md)
- *Immediate Family* (1989), Editor
- *Beetlejuice* (1988), Editor — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/beetlejuice.md)
- *Happy New Year* (1987), Editor
- *The Karate Kid Part II* (1986), Editor — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-karate-kid-part-ii.md)
- *Neighbors* (1981), Editor
- *Don't Go in the House* (1979), Editor

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/jane-kurson