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  • 1989
  • PG-13
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 1989
  • PG-13
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 33 m

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...

Directed By: Amy Heckerling

Written By: Amy Heckerling

  • 1989
  • PG-13
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 1989
  • PG-13
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 33 m
Look Who's Talking
Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
51
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 71 User Ratings
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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...

Directed By: Amy Heckerling

Written By: Amy Heckerling

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
51
47% Positive
7 Reviews
40% Mixed
6 Reviews
13% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 15 Critic Reviews
51
47% Positive
7 Reviews
40% Mixed
6 Reviews
13% Negative
2 Reviews

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75
Thanks to the ingenious voiceover, however, Look Who's Talking is a genial, entertaining film.
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70
Heckerling still has some of the sensitivity she showed in handling actors in Fast Times at Ridgemont High and she has a deft way of illustrating her heroine's fantasies about possible mates without any fuss.
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Generally Favorable Based on 71 User Ratings
7.5
61% Positive
43 Ratings
35% Mixed
25 Ratings
4% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 71 User Ratings
7.5
61% Positive
43 Ratings
35% Mixed
25 Ratings
4% Negative
3 Ratings

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9
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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70
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.
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60
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.
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50
Though the film has a plot a simpleton could follow, its hallmark is confusion. Its sense of time and place and its point of view are muddled. [13 Oct 1989, p.L]
By Allison Benedikt FULL REVIEW
40
Cute is the operative word for the movie, which stars some good actors doing material that is not super.
By Vincent Canby FULL REVIEW
20
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.
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6
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 watching the sequels, unless you have masochistic tendencies.
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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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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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Production Company TriStar Pictures, Management Company Entertainment Group (MCEG), Hollywood Licensing Group
Release Date Oct 13, 1989
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline He's got John Travolta's smile, Kirstie Alley's eyes, and the voice of Bruce Willis... Now all he has to do is find himself the perfect daddy.
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Awards

BMI Film & TV Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
People's Choice Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Kids' Choice Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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