American screenwriter and producer Tom Allen has worked on movies like Independence Day, The Truman Show, and Saving Private Ryan. He got his start in show business as a production assistant on the set of Total Recall.
After working on a few other movies, he wrote his first script for the 1994 movie Home Alone. Since then, he has written in many different types of stories, such as action, drama, comedy, and science fiction. Allen not only writes scripts for movies and TV shows, but he also makes them. Since 1985, he has been married to Matilda Allen, who also writes.