Look Who's Talking

Name: Look Who's Talking
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Released: October 13, 1989
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 51
Cast: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley

1989

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TriStar Pictures | Release Date: October 13, 1989 | PG-13

Starring: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley

Summary: If you've always wanted to know what a baby thinks of the world around him, you finally have your chance. Mollie is a single working mother who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James, a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James.If you've always wanted to know what a baby thinks of the world around him, you finally have your chance. Mollie is a single working mother who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James, a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James. It's going to take all the tricks a baby can think of to bring them together before it's too late. (Sony Pictures)… Expand

Director: Amy Heckerling

Genre(s): Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 93 min

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Roger Ebert

Look Who's Talking is full of good feeling, and director Amy Heckerling finds a light touch for her lightweight material. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Thanks to the ingenious voiceover, however, Look Who's Talking is a genial, entertaining film. Read full review

Roger Piantadosi

Heckerling's central hokum is definitely silly, based on the notion that Mikey (and all babies, in fact) has somewhat adult, slightly cynical thoughts on everything that goes on around him, from conception to end credits -- and that these thoughts and embryonic wisecracks and creative interpretations are heard only by the audience via the aptly cast voice of overgrown kid Willis. Read full review

Empire Mark Cooper

Despite the amiable charms of the central couple of Cheers' Kirstie Alley and a back-from-the-dead John Travolta, it is director Heckerling's goofy willingness to let her imagination run riot that prevents her film from sinking into soap. Read full review

Hal Hinson

A lot of this stuff is irresistible. In the early going especially, the movie's infantilism is snappy and surprising. But this is a great idea for a sketch, not a feature, and if Heckerling had resisted padding it out, it might have made a brilliant short. A comedy can ride only so far on high concept. It has to deliver the jokes, and this one doesn't. Read full review

Jay Carr

Before long, it runs out of steam, playing like the pilot for a TV sitcom called "Baby Knows Best." [13 Oct 1989, p.37]

Staff (Not Credited)

Like a standup comic pouring 'flopsweat', this ill-conceived comedy about an infant whose thoughts are given voice by actor Bruce Willis palpitates with desperation. Read full review

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Missbee9282

May 14, 2020

Love this movie! Haven’t seen it since I was a kid, yea the beginning is corny but it cracks me up in the best way.

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Dacrumeister

Aug 16, 2020

This movie was made during a better time, and is on a shortlist of great movies that you can enjoy with kids as they transition to being teens, without pandering to either parents or kids.

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nutterjr

Mar 9, 2012

The idea of trying to understand what goes on in the head of a baby is great and in the hands of a better writer this could have been a hell of a lot better that just cute as it turned out to be.

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alejandro970

Sep 30, 2022

Why a comedy about a baby expressing itself through thoughts was the favorite of a few in the late 1980s is an Easter Island enigma. It's not that it's terrible, it has one or two funny moments, although it brought to the table John Travolta's dubious taste for movies. Don't bother watchingWhy a comedy about a baby expressing itself through thoughts was the favorite of a few in the late 1980s is an Easter Island enigma. It's not that it's terrible, it has one or two funny moments, although it brought to the table John Travolta's dubious taste for movies. Don't bother watching the sequels, unless you have masochistic tendencies.… Expand

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csj

May 27, 2017

Quite candidly one of the worst movies that I have ever seen. It relies quite heavily on overused jokes and narrative tropes, and the entire premise is simply bizarre, uncomfortable, and utterly unamusing.

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