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"So you’re the one that’s been kicking me.” How Does Heckerling’s Biggest Hit Hold Up 30+ Years Later? It’s funny looking back on writer/director Amy Heckerling’s 1989 romantic comedy Look Who’s Talking now and thinking that studios thought it was too sexual for the genre or that women couldn’t carry a comedy like this. Heckerling has said that she had to pitch the film as a talking baby voiced by a hot male comic because of that fact. Remembering that it was the 80s perhaps is all the reminder we need as to why she struggled to find a studio for the film. But the president of Tri-Star saw Heckerling’s ‘quirky, offbeat sense’ and greenlit the film. Lucky for all of them, it was a huge hit that led to a very successful franchise. Join us – Pete Wright and Andy Nelson – as we wrap up our ‘80s Comedy with Coolidge & Heckerling’ series with Heckerling’s 1989 romantic comedy Look Who’s Talking . Mikey’s not the only one talking. We’ve clearly got a few things to say about Look Who’s Talking . What about the movie makes it feel dated? There are definitely some derogatory comments that people just wouldn’t say today, but there’s more to it than that. Is it how Kirstie Alley’s Molly tells everyone that she was artificially inseminated instead of coming clean about accidentally getting pregnant? Should she have had more agency and just admitted that she accidentally got pregnant? Does that feel dated, or is that relevant still today? Maybe it’s that people were so surprised by a working, single woman deciding to raise a child on her own. Between this and Baby Boom it was definitely a topic at the time. We bat around a few ideas but never quite agree on why some of the elements feel dated.One thing that certainly doesn’t feel dated is the relationship between Molly and John Travolta’s James. They’re a delightful pair and we love the chemistry they clearly have on screen. The movie also doesn’t feel like it has to rush with their relationship. In the realm of romantic comedies
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