Look Who's Talking (1989)
Directed by Amy Heckerling
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.
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…complete with a Look Who’s Talking!-style opening credits sequence—impregnating his married paramour…
…sequence lifted from Look Who’s Talking, of all places…
A Dog’s Purpose, based on the novel by W. Bruce Cameron, combines the philosophical belief that living beings are reborn into a different physical body after biological death with the voiceover narrative technique of Look Who’s Talking.
The narrative doesn’t limit its blatant manipulation to canine lovers, as the Josh Gad ( Beauty and the Beast )-voiced, Look Who’s Talking -esque dispatches of the chief hound’s simplistic existential-leaning thoughts stress, in case the plot developments themselves didn’t make that plain.
V:LTBC is a lot like a superhero twist on Look Who’s Talking.
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It was like watching “Look Who’s Talking,” except with a 16 year old mouthing the screenwriter’s acerbic barbs instead of infants.
As it stands, it's just a comedy, and a brilliant one; the Heckerling whose previous screenwriting consisted solely of the deathless Look Who's Talking and the immortal Look Who's Talking Too is not in evidence.
If you gave up on writer-director Amy Heckerling after Look Who's Talking and its sequel, this 1995 comedy--improbably but cleverly adapted by Heckerling from Jane Austen's Emma--might get you interested again.
Because the writer-director of "Clueless," Amy Heckerling ("European Vacation," "Fast Times at Ridgemont High," "Look Who's Talking"), based her screenplay loosely on "Emma."