Levinson met Dianna Rhodes while he was filming Diner (1982). She lived in Baltimore, with her two children Patrick and Michelle Levinson. Levinson and Rhodes later married and had two more children, Sam Levinson and Jack Levinson.
Proving himself as a director with The Natural (1984), he tackled his most ambitious project of that time Rain Man (1988). Levinson went on to place his stamp on films like Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), and Bugsy (1991).
After his many successes, Toys (1992) did poorly. Levinson had a hit with Disclosure (1994) in 1994, the same year the Levinsons moved to Marin County in Northern California to get away from the Hollywood scene.
In 2021, he co-executive produced the Hulu miniseries Dopesick and directed the first two episodes. Levinson, in 2011, was developing a film based on Whitey Bulger, the Boston crime boss.
The film Black Mass (script by Jim Sheridan, Jez Butterworth, and Russell Gewirtz) is based on the book by Dick Lehr and Gerard O’Neill, and it is said to be the “true story of Billy Bulger, Whitey Bulger, FBI agent John Connelly and the FBI’s witness protection program created by J. Edgar Hoover.” Levinson later left the project.
Levinson finished production on The Humbling (2014), starring Al Pacino. Levinson also directed Rock the Kasbah (2015), written by Mitch Glazer.