Lynda Obst Filmography

Occupation:: Executive Producer, Producer
Biography:: Author of the bestseller Hello He Lied: And Other Truths From the Hollywood Trenches, powerhouse producer Lynda Obst is the woman who ensured that such runaway hits as Flashdance (1983) and Contact (1997) found their way from conception to the silver screen. A keen and incisive Hollywood insider...Read More

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This Side of the Truth

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner, Rob Lowe, Jonah Hill, Louis C.K.

Synopsis: Ricky Gervais directs himself in This Side of the Truth, a comedy in which everyone in the world tells the truth except for one misfit in the film industry, who after discovering the act of lying, milks it to become the world's most phenomenal performer. Matthew Robinson will co-direct from his Read More

1/1/08
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Crew: Producer

Actors: Georgia Groome, Alan Davies, Karen Taylor, Aaron Johnson, Steve Jones

Synopsis: Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha continues to explore the world of precocious adolescent girls with this tale of a quirky teen whose mind perpetually drifts back to thoughts of growing up, procuring the perfect boyfriend, and throwing the biggest birthday bash ever. While maintaining Read More

1/1/08
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

Crew: Producer

Actors: Kate Hudson, Matthew McConaughey, Adam Goldberg, Michael Michele, Shalom Harlow

Synopsis: Two New Yorkers fight the battle of the sexes to a standstill (without entirely realizing it) in this romantic comedy. Andie (Kate Hudson) is a young journalist who longs to cover political stories, but in the meantime she finds herself writing for a women's magazine called Composure, where Read More

2/7/03
Abandon

Crew: Producer

Actors: Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt, Charlie Hunnam, Zooey Deschanel

Synopsis: A young woman is faced with the disturbing reemergence of a man she once loved in this psychological thriller. Embry Langan (Charlie Hunnam) was a wealthy but reckless student at an exclusive private college until he mysteriously vanished, with airline tickets to Europe left unused and plenty of Read More

10/18/02
Someone Like You

Crew: Producer

Actors: Ashley Judd, Greg Kinnear, Hugh Jackman, Marisa Tomei, Ellen Barkin

Synopsis: Based on Laura Zigman's 1998 novel Animal Husbandry, this romantic comedy centers on Jane Goodale (Ashley Judd), a talk-show producer who finds herself suddenly abandoned by her boyfriend (Greg Kinnear). After this untimely breakup, Jane begins to develop a thesis that male behavior is directly Read More

3/30/01
The '60s

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Bill Smitrovich, Annie Corley, Leonard Roberts, Charles S. Dutton, Cliff Gorman, David Alan Grier, Josh Hamilton, Julia Stiles, Jerry O'Connell, Jeremy Sisto, Jordana Brewster

Synopsis: Originally aired as a two-part miniseries on NBC, The 60's follows two families whose lives mirror much of the political and social tumult of that decade. The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian (Jerry O'Connell) joins the Read More

1999
The Siege

Crew: Producer

Actors: Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub

Synopsis: Edward Zwick directed this action thriller about Islamic militants unleashing terrorism in New York City. As FBI Terrorism Task Force-chief Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington) investigates, a false-alarm bomb threat is followed by a legit bomb, with many killed when a Brooklyn bus explodes. Agents Read More

11/6/98
Hope Floats

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Harry Connick, Jr., Gena Rowlands, Mae Whitman, Michael Paré

Synopsis: Actor/director Forest Whitaker (Waiting to Exhale) helmed this romantic drama about a one-time high-school beauty queen who returns to her hometown of Smithville, TX. The Steven Rogers screenplay begins in Chicago, where blonde Connie (Rosanna Arquette, uncredited) appears on a trashy daytime talk Read More

5/29/98
Contact

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: The search for life outside our solar system becomes a personal and spiritual quest for a young researcher. Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) is a scientist who lost her faith in God after her parents died when she was a child. However, Ellie has learned to develop a different sort of faith in the Read More

1997
One Fine Day

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman, Alex D. Linz, Charles Durning, Robert Klein

Synopsis: Even without money problems, many divorced single parents have a hard row to hoe. At the drop of a hat, a competent, responsible professional person can be reduced to a frazzled, bumbling parent, when his or her children become unexpected daytime wards. This is what happens to Jack Taylor (George Clooney Read More

1996
Bad Girls

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, Drew Barrymore, James Russo

Synopsis: Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, and Drew Barrymore are the stars of this Western whose main gimmick is making heroes into heroines. They all start out as prostitutes, as Cody (Stowe) shoots a drunken colonel who attempts to molest Anita (Masterson). She is about to be Read More

1994
Sleepless in Seattle

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dana Ivey, Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Bill Pullman, Ross Malinger, Rosie O'Donnell, Victor Garber, Rob Reiner

Synopsis: Sleepless in Seattle, the sophomore directorial effort from Nora Ephron, is a light romantic comedy inspired by the 1957 film An Affair to Remember. Tom Hanks stars as widower and single father Sam. When Sam's son, Jonah (Ross Malinger), calls into a talk radio program looking for a new mother Read More

1993
This Is My Life

Crew: Producer

Actors: Julie Kavner, Samantha Mathis, Gaby Hoffmann, Carrie Fisher, Dan Aykroyd

Synopsis: Based on the book by Meg Wolitzer, This Is My Life is the directorial debut for Nora Ephron, who adapted the script with sister, Delia Ephron. Dottie Engels (Julie Kavner) is a single mother with aspirations of becoming a standup comedian. When her Aunt Harriet dies, Dottie gets an apartment in Read More

2/21/92
The Fisher King

Crew: Producer

Actors: Adam Bryant, Paul Lombardi, David Hyde Pierce, Robin Williams, Jeff Bridges, Mercedes Ruehl, Amanda Plummer, Michael Jeter

Synopsis: Terry Gilliam directed this adaptation of Richard LaGravenese's mystical (and mythical) tale of redemption in the hard-time town of New York City. Jeff Bridges is shock radio DJ Jack Lucas, whose low opinion of humanity lends itself well to his radio talk show, where the enmity rubs off on his Read More

9/20/91
Heartbreak Hotel

Crew: Co-producer, Producer

Actors: David Keith, Tuesday Weld, Charlie Schlatter, Angela Goethals, Jacque Lynn Colton

Synopsis: Johnny Wolfe (Charlie Schlatter) is an Ohio teen whose alcoholic mother Marie (Tuesday Weld) has been a huge Elvis Presley fan since the 1950s. To cheer her up on her birthday, Johnny kidnaps the king of rock & roll (David Keith) after a 1972 concert. Elvis settles in to the Wolfe's den by Read More

9/30/88
Adventures in Babysitting

Crew: Producer

Actors: Elisabeth Shue, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan, Anthony Rapp, Vincent D'Onofrio, Calvin Levels

Synopsis: Teenager Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue) would rather party with her boyfriend, but when her beau breaks their date she reluctantly accepts a babysitting job. It isn't all TV and icebox-raiding when Chris' best friend Brenda (Penelope Ann Miller) calls her to announce that she's stranded at the bus Read More

7/1/87
Flashdance

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Jennifer Beals, Michael Nouri, Lilia Skala, Sunny Johnson, Kyle Heffner

Synopsis: Jennifer Beals stars as Alex Owens, a Pittsburgh steel-mill welder by day, and bar dancer by night. Harboring dreams of a career in ballet, she is given financial support in this endeavor by her boss Nick Hurley (Michael Nouri) and moral support by demanding but big-hearted instructor Hanna Long (Lilia Skala Read More

1983