Parents need to know that Look Who's Talking is a 1989 comedy in which Kirstie Alley gives birth to a baby who is voiced by Bruce Willis. For those who haven't seen the movie in a few years, there's a surprising amount of adult and iffy humor that make this best for teens and older. The movie begins with talking sperm cells swimming to try to fertilize an egg.
Alley's character becomes pregnant from a man who's having an extramarital affair with her; much of the second half of the movie concerns itself with the idea that a woman couldn't possibly raise a child without a man's help. During the birth of the baby, the woman is given Demarol, and the baby is shown acting high on drugs. In one scene, the baby calls his mother's date a "d--k," and in another scene, says "I feel like a retard." Lots of the humor is derived from the baby's defecation and urination habits. One of the babies in the maternity ward is Indian and talks in a stereotypical accent.
There are lots of sex jokes and innuendo, and occasional profanity, including "f--k" . 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. It's going to take all the tricks a baby can think of to bring them together before it's too late. If you've always wanted to know what a baby thinks of the world around him, you finally have your chance.
The rest of the movie plays out as lightweight and warmhearted, in how it becomes about Travolta falling in love with both Molly, her son Mikey and becoming a part of their life. Heckerling bases the film and most of it's comedy on the notion that Mikey and all babies has a adult cynical thoughts on everything that goes on around him, from conception to end credits. Mikey's thoughts, embryonic wisecracks and creative interpretations are heard only by the audience via the aptly cast voice of tv star turned action star Bruce Willis.
In the film, Alley's character, Mollie, is a single businesswoman woman who conceived Mikey as a result of an affair with a married man . Travolta's character, a cab driver named James, becomes a love interest to Mollie and a father figure to Mikey. Jeremy Garelick is set to write and direct, and Adam Fields will produce. As was the case with his hit film The Wedding Ringer — also for Screen Gems — Garelick's looking at a version that will allow for a diverse cast.
Amy Heckerling wrote and directed the original, a sleeper hit that cost $7.5 million and grossed nearly $300 million worldwide. Fields produced The Wedding Ringer and such films as Donnie Darko. On April 6, 2010, it was reported that producer Neal Mortiz is planning to reboot the film series, this time with the Mikey character now grown up and the father of his own baby in the film. In July 2019, Screen Gems announced that director Jeremy Garelick ("The Wedding Ringer") was writing the script and directing for the reboot.
While the voiceover idea really isn't necessary, it still works well because Heckerling uses the device for all it's worth, with Bruce Willis's voice as a sperm, a fetus, and as baby Mikey. Willis was always great at a sarcastic delivery, which makes Willis the ideal voice for the part. With the films PG-13 rating, Amy Heckerling has stated that Bruce Willis had improvised voice over takes that would have given the film an R rating. The movie stars Kirstie Alley, best known as the bar manager Rebecca from the tv series "Cheers", as accountant Molly who's having an affair with a boorish, self-centered businessman (George Seagal "The Goldbergs"). Molly gets pregnant, he cheats on her with a younger woman and suddenly she's a single mom.
She encounters the charming John Travolta through the standard movie meet cute, as she goes into labor in his taxi as he races her to the hospital. Molly gives birth to Mikey in an elaborately, irresistably silly "Fantastic Voyage" title sequence, set to The Beach Boys "I Get Around". Also note the film has a great soundtrack that includes Pete Townshend's "Let My Love Open The Door". Though "Special Delivery" focuses on a married couple's adjustment to life with a baby while "Look Who's Talking" follows a mother's search for a suitable father for her son, in both films the babies comment on their surroundings both inside the womb and out. On April 6, 2010, it was reported that Fast & Furious' producer Neal H. Moritz is planning to reboot the series, this time with the Mikey character now grown up and the father of the baby in the film.
In July 2019, Screen Gems announced that director Jeremy Garelick was writing the script for the reboot. The story centers around a baby whose thoughts the audience can hear, voiced by none other than tough guy Bruce Willis doing a little baby talk. The infant's commentary follows Kirstie Alley, who plays his single, career-minded mom, as she falls for the new man in her life, a cab driver played byJohn Travolta. Smash-hit comedy following a single mother on her search for the perfect husband and father to baby Mikey .
She credits Travolta with coming up with a unique concept to give the film broader reach. "When they were releasing the movie in foreign countries, he had an idea of getting different celebrities in different countries to be cast as the baby. So you would have a Spanish or Italian star," she told The Wrap. But Amy Heckerling's comedy, released exactly 30 years ago today, introduced topics that weren't entirely mainstream in 1989.
Mollie's decision to remain every bit the career woman was revered while blue-collar cabbie James was shown to be a capable caregiver back in a time when dads were celebrated for "babysitting" their own offspring. And despite receiving just a 59 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, the flick topped the box office its initial weekend, eventually netting nearly $300 million worldwide, and spawned two sequels, a short-lived television series and the enduring friendship of Travolta and Alley. The casting is spot on, one of the major differences to the sequel. Bruce Willis is a great choice to play the voice of Mikey, and John Travolta is fantastic. But for me it was George Segal who stole the show for me, playing Mikey's real father, who in his words is going through a 'selfish phase'.
After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile, the point-of-view of the newborn boy is narrated through voice-over. Hoping to get her life back on track, Mollie becomes a dedicated single mother; refusing to be superficial about hopeful fathers, but rejecting several men over small quirks; like horribly mistreating waitstaff; that may reflect badly upon Mikey in the future.
She meets James again at her apartment building and discovers he used her mailing address to set up residency in order to get his grandfather Vincent into a nice care home. She agrees to continue the ruse when he agrees to babysit Mikey , which almost comes to a halt when he takes the baby out to the airport, where he is a part time commercial pilot, while she is taking a nap . Mollie leaves upset, the heartbreak and stress causing her to go into labor. She gets into a cab where the driver, James Ubriacco, recklessly speeds through downtown traffic in order to get her to the hospital on time, and he is inadvertently a witness to her son Mikey's birth.
Mikey then begins to make commentary on his life and interacts with things through an inner voice which can also communicate with other babies. He lives on the beautiful island of Maui and is also a member of the elite Hawaii Film Critics Society and an active cast member of the NerdWatch pod cast. He has worked at Consolidated Kaahumanu Theaters for nearly 13 years as a Sales Associate and making his way up to Assistant Manager. He has loved movies since he was a young boy, where his Grandfather started his love for the movies. A 1989 comedy film directed by Amy Heckerling and starring John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, and the voice of Bruce Willis. It's been 30 years since the original hit theaters, which means a whole new generation of moviegoers have yet to be scared by the sentient sperm and squealing ova of Look Who's Talking.
Hopefully Sony Pictures' Screen Gems will bring them along for their reboot of the TriStar comedy starring Kirstie Alley, John Travolta, and Bruce Willis as the voice of baby Mikey. "Add in the voices that are keyed to facial expressions, it just really seems like a fun idea. Everyone can relate to babies." In other countries, however, Mikey's voice was taken on by popular regional stars. The local flavor helped propel the film to international box office success. But Davis turned it down, because she couldn't handle shooting a movie involving a birth sequence, especially with her birth sequence in 1986's "The Fly".
Kirstie Alley had found the kind of role she had been looking for. It's a role that lets us see the person who Kirstie always was, beneath all those hours of TV screen time on "Cheers". According to Kirstie Alley in her memoir, she fell in love with John Travolta during filming, but she stayed faithful to her husband.
The movie stars Alley (best known as the bar manager from "Cheers") as an accountant who's having an affair with a boorish, self-centered businessman . She gets pregnant, he double-crosses her, and suddenly she's a single mom. She encounters Travolta through one of those standard movie Meet Cutes, when she goes into labor pains and he's the taxi driver who races her to the hospital. Both "Special Delivery" and "Look Who's Talking" depict a woman in her 30's giving birth to her first child, Moses in "Special Delivery" and Mikey in "Look Who's Talking." Both works extend through the first year of the child 's life and conclude with the birth of a girl.
High-powered accountant Mollie learns she's expecting her married lover's baby. When he tells her he's opting out of fatherhood, the stress send her into labor and careening into the back of taxi driver James' cab. LOOK WHO'S TALKING chronicles the unlikely love affair of Molly , a CPA, and taxi driver James . After finding herself pregnant with the child of her married client, Albert , Molly sets out to find Mikey the "best daddy." She makes a deal whereby James will serve as her babysitter and then finds herself conflicted.
Should she wait around for a hotshot Mr. Right or take a chance with the dashing and exciting James? He's a dreamer, but according to Mikey's musings, he is surely a keeper. Meanwhile, Mikey wanders off on his own, searching for James when he sees a taxi cab outside. After making his way out to the alley, he gets into a car which then gets towed away with Mikey inside it, while Mollie and James search frantically for him. After spotting him, James and Mollie give chase in his cab and eventually cut off the tow truck, but discover Mikey had gotten out of the car and is now standing in the middle of heavy traffic.
James and Mollie run to reach him and take him to safety, where Mikey unofficially asks James to be his father by saying his first word "Da-da". James and Mollie realize that Mikey already sees James as his father, and they decide to give it a chance, kissing passionately while Mikey considers telling them he needs a new diaper, before deciding to wait. "I was shooting like they did in the 1930s with film going by without the budget for a lot of film going by," Heckerling said. She had to have several babies on set monitored by a baby wrangler to ensure that one would be in the right mood for a given shot.
Coming-of-age teen comedy film written and directed by Amy Heckerling. It's a real charmer that stands as the second best "baby pictures" of the 80's right behind "Three Men and A Baby". It is full of good feels, and director Amy Heckerling finds a light touch for her lightweight material.
She has a keen sense of visual comedy, sharp editing, a breezy fast pace. Heckerling's film and screenplay is a hyperkinetic and uniquely precocious little comedy that makes the best of and is certainly the big highlight of Amy Heckerling, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley's careers. Like baby Mikey, this film is charming and irresistible even thirty years later. "Look Who's Talking" was a huge hit, opening at number one in the United States in its opening weekend and staying at number one for five weekends with grosses over $10 million each weekend.
It eventually grossed a worldwide total of $296 million, making it Travolta's most successful film in eleven years since "Grease" and the fourth highest grossing movie of 1989. Travolta has said that this was the only time, after watching a premiere of his, that he knew he was going to be in a major hit. Travolta demonstrates, 12 years after his breakout film "Saturday Night Fever", that he is a warm and winning actor when he's not shoe horned into the wrong roles. Of all the roles he's played, John Travolta said the character he plays in this film is the most like his real personality. 1994's "Pulp Fiction" has been widely considered as John Travolta's mainstream comeback. In actuality "Look Who's Talking" was his first commercially successful film following a series of critical and commercial failures.
Beginning with 1978's "Moment by Moment" and would continue throughout the 1980's with "Blow Out" , "Two of a Kind" , "Staying Alive" , "Perfect" and "The Experts" . Because of all of the critical and commercial failures of those films, studios and directors were reluctant to hire him as they felt he was a "has been". Written and directed by Amy Heckerling, who got her big break in 1982 with the teen comedy classic "Fast Times At Ridgemont High". Heckerling went on to write and direct "Johnny Dangerously" and the sequel "National Lampoon's European Vacation".
She would go on to write and direct one of the biggest pop cultural phenomenons, 1995's "Clueless". Although her biggest success to date theatrically is 1989's "Look Who's Talking" with the utterly charming John Travolta and the beautiful Kirstie Alley. A reboot for the film was reported to be underway by Deadline in July 2019 with The Wedding Ringer's Jeremy Garelick set to write and direct. Get an early start exposing your baby (up to ~24 months) to language through songs, play, and language development techniques with certified speech-language pathologists! Use learned techniques from the class to enhance your child's communication skills in their everyday environment.
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. Multiple babies we're employed to portray Mollie's adorable son, but it was the actor behind toddler Mikey,Jacob Haines, thatBritish paperMetrotracked down in 2016. At the time, the Alabama native was a father of three, sharing kids Christina, Matthew and Joshua with his actress wife Annie, and living in Florida.
While his IMDB page listsLook Who's Talkingas his sole credit, the Walt Disney World entertainer is still starring in TV ads and even made a cameo on an episode ofOne Tree Hill. Writer and director Amy Heckerling took the romantic comedy to the next level with two sequels,Look Who's Talking Too and Look Who's Talking Now. The Hollywood Reporter takes a look at what the cast — including Kirstie Alley, John Travolta and Bruce Willis — have been up to in the years since the film hit theaters on Oct. 13, 1989.
The romantic ups and downs of accountant Mollie Jensen are viewed cynically by a most unusual bystander -- her talking newborn, Mikey . She becomes pregnant through an affair with a married man, Albert , and then counts on the friendship of taxi driver James once she discovers Albert is a lying cad. Although Mikey likes James, and James cares for both the baby and Mollie, she isn't sure she can settle down with a blue-collar boyfriend.
The dogs can talk at a family of 4, where mom loses her job the same day dad gets a job as pilot for a cute, single boss. This is certainly not my sort of film, but after my girlfriend began complaining we always watch my movies, I prepared myself for 90 minutes of fake laughter and smiling to keep her happy, after all who else was I gonna take to see the new 'Clint' movie out. Look Who's Talking was a surprise hit, opening at number one in the United States with $12,107,784 in its opening weekend and staying at number one for five weekends with grosses over $10 million each weekend. It eventually grossed $140,088,813 domestically and a worldwide total of $296,999,813, making it Travolta's most successful film in eleven years since Grease, and the fourth highest-grossing movie of 1989.
Mollie is an accountant living in New York City who has an affair with Albert, a womanizing executive who is married with two daughters, and she becomes pregnant. During her pregnancy, Mollie and Albert keep their indiscretion secret, under the idea she was artificially inseminated, and that Albert plans to leave his wife Beth and their two children named Astrid and Priscilla to be with her. The baby, while growing inside Mollie, begins to make voice over commentary and demands - like tugging on his umbilical cord and requesting apple juice, which she gulps down. "We had one shot that took us 115 takes to get," Masters revealed. … It required 12 puppeteers, people were hanging upside down." The shot eventually was cut from the film. Heckerling had just given birth to her daughter when the idea for "Look Who's Talking" hit her.
