Screenplay: Leslie Dixon

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Leslie Dixon. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Pay It Forward

2000 · Movie · 122 min. · United States

Direction Mimi Leder

Cast Kevin Spacey · Helen Hunt · Haley Joel Osment · Jay Mohr

Plot A young boy (Haley Joel Osment) is challenged by his teacher (Kevin Spacey) to make the world a better place. The boy comes up with the "pay it forward" concept,...

6.7

38K votes

6.7

38K votes

Limitless

2011 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Neil Burger

Cast Bradley Cooper · Abbie Cornish · Robert De Niro · Anna Friel

Plot Aspiring author Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is suffering from chronic writer’s block, but his life changes instantly when an old friend introduces him to NZT, a revolutionary new pharmaceutical that...

6.4

33K votes

6.4

33K votes

The Thomas Crown Affair

1999 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction John McTiernan

Cast Pierce Brosnan · René Russo · Denis Leary · Frankie Faison

Plot A multi-millionaire (Brosnan) is looking for a little excitement in his life and decides to execute the perfect crime by emptying out a bank’s safe in broad daylight. A female...

Max

6.0

16K votes

6.0

16K votes

Just Like Heaven

2005 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Mark Waters

Cast Reese Witherspoon · Mark Ruffalo · Donal Logue · Jon Heder

Plot When David (Mark Ruffalo) rented his quaint San Francisco apartment, the last thing he expected -or wanted- was a roommate. He had only begun to make a complete mess of...

5.8

13K votes

5.8

13K votes

Hairspray

2007 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Adam Shankman

Cast John Travolta · Queen Latifah · Michelle Pfeiffer · Christopher Walken

Plot Tracy Turnblad, a big girl with big hair and an even bigger heart, has only one passion--dancing. Her dream is to appear on "The Corny Collins Show," Baltimore's hippest dance...

5.8

18K votes

5.8

18K votes

Mrs. Doubtfire

1993 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Chris Columbus

Cast Robin Williams · Sally Field · Pierce Brosnan · Mara Wilson

Plot An unemployed actor loses custody of his children after his wife leaves him. Desperate to spend more time with the kids, the crafty thespian decides to dress up as a...

5.6

86K votes

5.6

86K votes

Overboard

1987 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction Garry Marshall

Cast Goldie Hawn · Kurt Russell · Edward Herrmann · Katherine Helmond

Plot Joanna is an obnoxious, wealthy woman, who becomes afflicted with amnesia after she slips off her yacht. Dean Proffitt is the gruff, blue-collar woodworker who recently had a nasty run-in...

5.4

3K votes

5.4

3K votes

The Heartbreak Kid

2007 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Peter Farrelly · Bobby Farrelly

Cast Ben Stiller · Michelle Monaghan · Jerry Stiller · Malin Akerman

Plot Single and indecisive, Eddie (Ben Stiller) begins dating the incredibly sexy and seemingly fabulous Lila (Malin Akerman). Upon the urging of his father and best friend, Eddie proposes to her...

5.1

12K votes

5.1

12K votes

Overboard

2018 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Rob Greenberg

Cast Eugenio Derbez · Anna Faris · Eva Longoria · John Hannah

Plot A spoiled, wealthy yacht owner is thrown overboard and becomes the target of revenge from his mistreated employee. A remake of the 1987 comedy.

5.0

1K votes

5.0

1K votes

Loverboy

1989 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Joan Micklin Silver

Cast Patrick Dempsey · Kate Jackson · Kirstie Alley · Carrie Fisher

Plot Young Randy Bodek (Patrick Dempsey) loses support for his college tuition from his parents (in a similar plot to the 86' film "Soul Man" with C. Thomas Howell). So Randy...

4.9

381 votes

4.9

381 votes

That Old Feeling

1997 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

4.9

329 votes

4.9

329 votes

Outrageous Fortune

1987 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Bette Midler · Shelley Long · Peter Coyote · Robert Prosky

Plot The CIA is trailing them. The KGB is tracking them. The phone company is tracing them. The police are chasing them. The cowboys are herding them. And the Indians are...

4.8

240 votes

4.8

240 votes

Freaky Friday

2003 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Mark Waters

Cast Jamie Lee Curtis · Lindsay Lohan · Mark Harmon · Harold Gould

Plot Dr. Tess Coleman (Curtis) and her fifteen-year-old daughter, Anna (Lohan), are not getting along. They don't see eye-to-eye on clothes, hair, music, and certainly not in each other's taste in...

4.7

12K votes

4.7

12K votes

Look Who's Talking Now

1993 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Tom Ropelewski

Cast Kirstie Alley · John Travolta · Olympia Dukakis · George Segal

Plot In this sequel, James and Mollie Urbiacco (John Travolta and Kirstie Ally) and their two kids have two new talking additions to the family: a pair of dogs named Rocks...

3.6

10K votes

3.6

10K votes