Leslie Dixon Biography ((?)-)
Father, a writer; married Tom Ropelewski (a writer, director, and producer);granddaughter of Maynard Dixon (an artist) and Dorothea Lange (a photographer); children: Thomas Dixon Ropelewski. Addresses: Agent: Todd Feldman,Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Writer, producer
Famous Works
- CREDITS
- Film Executive Producer
- Loverboy, TriStar, 1989
- Look Who's Talking Now, TriStar, 1993
- Film Producer
- Madhouse, Orion, 1990
- That Old Feeling, Universal, 1997
- The Next Best Thing, Paramount, 2000
- Radio Appearances
- Episodic
- On the Media, National Public Radio, 2004
- WRITINGS
- Screenplays
- Outrageous Fortune, Buena Vista, 1987
- Overboard, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1987
- Loverboy, TriStar, 1989
- (With Tom Ropelewski) Look Who's Talking Now (based on characterscreated by Amy Heckerling), TriStar, 1993
- (With Randi Mayem Singer) Mrs. Doubtfire (based on a novel by AnneFine), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1993
- That Old Feeling, Universal, 1997
- The Thomas Crown Affair (based on an earlier film of the same name), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1999
- Pay It Forward (based on the novel by Catherine Ryan Hide), WarnerBros., 2000
- (With others) Bringing down the House, Buena Vista, 2003
- (With Heather Hach) Freaky Friday (based on an earlier film of thesame name and the book by Mary Rodgers), Buena Vista, 2003
- (Uncredited) Ice Princess, Buena Vista, 2005
- Just Like Heaven (also known as If Only It Were True), DreamWorks, 2005
- Author of the screenplay Glimpses of the Moon. Some sources cite Dixon's screenplay work on the film Runaway Bride, Paramount, 1999.