Rotten
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.
Variety Staff, Variety
Look Who's Talking
He's hip, he's cool, and he's only 3 months old.
1989 · 1h 36m · PG-13
Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Amy Heckerling
,
Blu Mankuma
Overview
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 baby is narrated through voice-over.
Director and cast
- Amy Heckerling Director
- Blu Mankuma Director
- John Travolta as James Ubriacco
- Kirstie Alley as Mollie Jensen
- Olympia Dukakis as Rosie
- George Segal as Albert
- Bruce Willis as Mikey (voice)
- Abe Vigoda as Grandpa
- Jacob Haines as Mikey (age 1)
- Jaryd Waterhouse as Mikey (newborn)
- Joy Boushel as Melissa
- Douglas Tuck Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
57%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Heckerling directs this dippy but delightful film with a light, zany touch and a reasonably low yuck-factor (dribbles notwithstanding).
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
Cute is the operative word for the movie, which stars some good actors doing material that is not super.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten
This flabby comedy ... deserves only one thing: to fall on its fat one.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
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.
Hal Hinson, Washington Post
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