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Movies that feel likeLook Who's Talking (1989)

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.

If you loved Look Who's Talking, the closest films we have are You Can't Take It with You (1938), Mon Oncle (1958) and Clueless (1995). All three share Look Who's Talking's witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Cold Comfort Farm (1995).

🍅 56% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Amy Heckerlingwittyplayfulromanticwhimsical
9 of 12 streaming nowHBO Max · Paramount Plus Premium · Criterion Channel

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You Can't Take It with You
1938 · dir. Frank Capra
🍅 94%★ 7.8comedy · romance

Both land wit and play at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.

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Mon Oncle
1958 · dir. Jacques Tati
🍅 94%★ 7.6comedyMax

Common ground: whimsical

The difference: Takes it somewhere less romantic than Look Who's Talking does

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.

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Clueless
1995 · dir. Amy Heckerling
★ 6.9comedy · romanceParamount+Starz

Both are Amy Heckerling's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Trades the whimsy of Look Who's Talking for an angle of its own

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.

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Obvious Child
2014 · dir. Gillian Robespierre
🍅 90%★ 6.7comedy · romance

Both are built on the same subject: pregnancy

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 2010s show

An immature, newly unemployed comic must navigate the murky waters of adulthood after her fling with a graduate student results in an unplanned pregnancy.

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A Cat in Paris
2010 · dir. Jean-Loup Felicioli
🍅 83%★ 6.9animation · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: whimsical

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Look Who's Talking does

A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, over the course of one adventurous evening.

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My Best Friend's Wedding
1997 · dir. P.J. Hogan
🍅 75%★ 6.4comedy · romanceParamount+

Both lean on romance more than on comedy

When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.

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I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
2007 · dir. Dennis Dugan
🍅 15%★ 5.9comedy · romanceStarz

One thread runs through both: single parent

Firefighters Chuck Ford and Larry Valentine are guy's guys, loyal to the core—which is why when widower Larry asks Chuck to pose as his lover so that he can get domestic partner benefits for his kids, his buddy agrees. However, things get dicey when a bureaucrat comes calling, and the boys are forced to present a picture of domestic bliss.

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What Women Want
2000 · dir. Nancy Meyers
🍅 53%★ 6.5comedy · romanceParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: amused

Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.

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Cold Comfort Farm
1995 · dir. John Schlesinger
🍅 82%★ 7.2comedy · romance

Witty romance in both cases

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

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The Addams Family
1991 · dir. Barry Sonnenfeld
🍅 67%★ 7comedy · fantasyParamount+

Comedy with a pulse of whimsy, in both cases

When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life.

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Coming to America
1988 · dir. John Landis
🍅 71%★ 7.1comedy · romance

Romance built on play, twice over

An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.

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You've Got Mail
1998 · dir. Nora Ephron
🍅 69%★ 6.8comedy · romanceParamount+

Romantic comedy, and it commits to that

Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.

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