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Look Who's Talking (1989)

★ 6.3 · 2,443 ratings on TMDB

He's hip, he's cool, and he's only 3 months old.

Look Who's Talking poster★ 6.3

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.

DirectorAmy Heckerling
CastAbe Vigoda, Bruce Willis, George Segal, Jacob Haines, Jaryd Waterhouse, Jason Schaller
GenresComedy, Romance
The emergence reading

Look Who's Talking keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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