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...
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
Direction Carl Reiner
Cast Bette Midler · Dennis Farina · Paula Marshall · Gail O'Grady
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