Once she realized that she wanted to pursue writing, she moved to Hollywood at the age of 26 with hopes of making her way into the film industry.
[5] Her partner got an agent attached to the piece, and after receiving two offers, it was sold to Columbia Pictures for $30,000.
[3] Her first solo screenplay was Outrageous Fortune (1987),[6] written for Shelley Long and Bette Midler.
[1] From 1987 to 1997, Dixon continued to write romantic comedies, including Overboard (1987), Loverboy (1989), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), and That Old Feeling (1997).
She also wrote an adaptation for The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), a re-write from Alan Trustman's original screenplay in 1968, and then the drama Pay It Forward (2000) based on Catherine Ryan Hyde's 1999 novel of the same name.