From the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Leslie Dixon built a strong reputation as a writer for several comedy films, including "Outrageous Fortune" (1987), "Overboard" (1987), "Loverboy" (1989), and "Look Who's Talking Now" (1993). After working on "Mrs. Doubtfire," (1993), she would go on to write the screenplays for "That Old Feeling" (1997), "The Thomas Crown Affair" (1999) and Pay It Forward (2000).

Years later, she wrote the script for "Freaky Friday," (2003), a comedy-fantasy about a mother and daughter who switch bodies for one day. She would be nominated for a Saturn Award for her work on the film.

In 2011, Dixon penned the screenplay for the Neil Burger-directed mystery-thriller "Limitless," based on Alan Glynn's 2001 novel "The Dark Fields." The film stared Bradley Cooper as a struggling writer in New York City who discovers a drug that imbues him with superhuman powers.

Dixon also worked on the script for the crime-action film "Tower Heist," (2011) the story of a group of workers who fall victim to a Wall Street tycoon's Ponzi scheme and plot to rob his high-rise residence and take back their pensions.

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