Editing Amy Heckerling (section)

====1990s====
Two ''Look Who's Talking'' sequels would follow—1990's ''[[Look Who's Talking Too]]''—also directed by Heckerling and co-written with her then-husband [[Neal Israel]]. The film added another baby to the storyline and was a moderate success. Heckerling then produced, but did not direct, the third and final sequel, ''[[Look Who's Talking Now]]''—a flop. The films also spawned a brief television show called ''[[Baby Talk (TV series)|Baby Talk]]'' that was largely written by Heckerling.

In 1995, she wrote and directed ''[[Clueless (film)|Clueless]]'', reworking and updating [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[Emma (novel)|Emma]]'' as a 1990s teen comedy about wealthy teenagers living in [[Beverly Hills]]. Heckerling originally thought of ''Clueless'' as a television show because she loved to write the character of Cher who she described as a "happy, optimistic, California girl", and wanted to explore all of her adventures, but after she pitched it to her agent she was told that it would make a great feature. To research for the script, Heckerling sat in on classes at [[Beverly Hills High School]] where she observed how teenagers acted, though she admits that most of it was made up. She notes that teenagers at the high school did not dress in high fashion every day as the characters do in the film and that in reality the students there dressed just as frumpily as everyone else. She did, however draw on many of her observations, especially the tendency of teenage girls to groom themselves constantly. "You would think that within, you know, the few minutes that they've been in class, that their makeup wouldn't be needing so much repair and yet they're constantly painting and sculpting and ... doing to themselves."<ref name="charlierose1"/>

As with ''[[Fast Times at Ridgemont High]]'', it quickly caught on with teenagers and went on to become a significant pop culture reference point. The film went on to gross $56,631,572 and helped launch the careers of most of the cast, including [[Alicia Silverstone]], [[Brittany Murphy]], [[Paul Rudd]], [[Donald Faison]], [[Breckin Meyer]], and [[Stacey Dash]]. It was spun off into a moderately successful TV series, with Heckerling penning the pilot, as well as directing several episodes from the first season. Heckerling describes the show as basically the same as the film, only cleaner, and says that she still loves the characters.