He's hip, he's cool, and he's only 3 months old.
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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Effortless, comic, resolved and spare.
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- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
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- Filipe Manuel Netoon TMDB · Jun 20227/10
**One of the most iconic romantic comedies of the decade.** What if a baby, still inside the mother's womb, could tell us what he thinks? The premise of this film is that, and it gives rise to one of the most outstanding romantic comedies of the 80's (and this is no small thing, considering the amount of romantic comedies that appeared in the 80's and 90's) and gave rise, thanks to a considerable critical and commercial success, to another two sequels, renewing John Travolta's career and making Kirstie Alley a star. The film is a good comedy, intelligently made, full of well-placed humor and that makes us smile, when it doesn't really make us laugh. The plot was well-thought-out, has a sense of humor, is witty and has a good dose of sympathetic sentimentality, without exaggeration: a young woman from a good family, single, became pregnant by a married man with whom she had an affair that only she is incapable of seeing who has no future; when the inevitable happens, and she ends that relationship, she finds herself alone and pregnant, ending up emotionally supported by a taxi driver she casually met. Of course, the baby will be the first to do what he can to bring them together as
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Cast
- John TravoltaJames
- Kirstie AlleyMollie
- Olympia DukakisRosie
- George SegalAlbert
- Abe VigodaGrandpa
- Bruce WillisMikey (voice)
- Twink CaplanRona
- Jason SchallerMikey
- Jaryd WaterhouseMikey
- Jacob HainesMikey
Crew
- Amy HeckerlingDirector
- Amy HeckerlingWriter
- Thomas Del RuthDirector of Photography
- David KitayOriginal Music Composer
- Debra ChiateEditor
- Jonathan D. KraneProducer
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