Look Who’s Talking (1989)
1989 Amy Heckerling comedy with John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. Bruce Willis voices a sarcastic infant narrator.
Kirstie Alley debuted as Saavik in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and declined to return for the sequel, and the role was recast.
Cheers gave her Rebecca Howe after Shelley Long’s departure and won her an Emmy, and Veronica’s Closet brought another. Look Who’s Talking gave her a film franchise. She was a prominent Scientologist and spoke publicly about the church for decades, and died of cancer in 2022.
Bruce Willis1989 Amy Heckerling comedy with John Travolta and Kirstie Alley. Bruce Willis voices a sarcastic infant narrator.
Bruce WillisDiminishing returns on the talking-baby concept. Travolta and Alley return as James and Mollie, now married with a toddler Mikey and a baby Julie.
DeForest KelleySowards wrote the original screenplay, with substantial uncredited revisions by Meyer. The film made approximately ninety-seven million dollars worldwide on an eleven million dollar budget.
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