Editing Look Who's Talking (section)

==Reception==
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The film received mixed reviews. {{RT prose|{{RT data|score}}|{{RT data|average}}|{{RT data|count}}|''Look Who's Talking'' holds some appeal thanks to its affable stars and Amy Heckerling's energetic direction, but a silly script doesn't allow wit to get a word in edgewise.|ref=yes|access-date=October 6, 2021}} {{Metacritic film prose|51|15|ref=yes|access-date=October 13, 2023}} Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.<ref name="CinemaScore">{{cite web |url=https://m.cinemascore.com |title=CinemaScore |work=cinemascore.com}}</ref>

''Look Who's Talking'' was a surprise hit, opening at [[List of 1989 box office number-one films in the United States|number one in the United States]] with $12,107,784 in its opening weekend and staying at number one for five weekends with grosses over $10 million each weekend. It eventually grossed $140,088,813 domestically and a worldwide total of $296,999,813,<ref name="mojo">{{mojo title|lookwhostalking|Look Who's Talking}}</ref> making it Travolta's most successful film in eleven years since ''[[Grease (film)|Grease]]'', the fourth highest-grossing film of 1989,<ref name="mojo"/> and Columbia TriStar's highest-grossing film overseas, surpassing ''[[Kramer vs. Kramer]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|title=With $55-mil rentals, 'Look Who's Talking' becomes Col's No. 2 moneymaker o'seas|date=August 15, 1990|page=42}}</ref>

The film was released in the [[United Kingdom]] on April 6, 1990, and topped the country's box office that weekend.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.25thframe.co.uk/charts/chart.php?chart=19900406|title=UK Weekend Box Office 6th April 1990 - 8th April 1990|publisher=www.25thframe.co.uk|access-date=20 February 2019}}</ref>