Look Who's Talking
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2020
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
The late 80s and early 90s saw a deluge of movies and TV shows focused on working, single moms. Few films were able to capitalize on that niche as successfully as Look Who's Talking.
On the surface, it's a broad comedy about a talking baby - but because writer/director Amy Heckerling was drawing from her own experiences as a new parent, it managed to tap into something a lot more genuine and heartfelt as well.
Topics include: why most of the major studios passed on the script, the risk involved with hiring John Travolta at this point in his career, whether or not this premise requires such a complicated set-up, the two sequels, the TV show Baby Talk, the possibility of a remake, and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember, look who's talking? |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Donna. |
| 0:33.3 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:34.2 | And today we're revisiting. |
| 0:35.4 | Look who's talking. |
| 0:53.1 | Yeah. And I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting, look who's talking. We're probably all familiar with the old expression, write what you know. |
| 0:57.1 | And in the case of look who's talking, that's exactly what filmmaker Amy Heckerling did. |
| 1:02.0 | She had a newborn baby named Molly, and both she and her husband were completely enamored with how expressive this new little bundle of joy was. |
| 1:09.7 | They both found themselves slipping into funny voices and speaking for Molly, |
| 1:13.2 | and they were so entertained by this that Heckerling eventually realized, |
| 1:17.0 | okay, this might be a movie. |
| 1:19.4 | Although she had always envisioned herself tackling more provocative material, |
| 1:23.2 | her feature debut was Fast Times at Ridgemont High, after all. |
| 1:26.6 | This was a premise she just couldn't shake. |
| 1:28.9 | So she got to work on a script that may have felt a little softer around the edges |
| 1:32.7 | compared to her previous work, but as she soon discovered, it was too risque for most of the major |
| 1:38.3 | studios. |
| 1:39.3 | The cutesy, kid-friendly gimmick of talking babies seemed slightly at odds with the story's more overtly sexual |
| 1:45.3 | elements. Based solely on what was on the page, concerns over who exactly this was for would not |
| 1:51.1 | have been unfounded. But TriStar Pictures decided to roll the dice. They put up $7 million for the |
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