Amy Heckerling

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q442273: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only person by that name on Wikidata.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Johnny Dangerously (1984); National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985); Look Who's Talking (1989); Look Who's Talking Too (1990); Clueless (1995); Fast Times at Ridgemont High (TV spinoff: wrote/directed 3 of 7 episodes). Count them as writer (1 film) instead.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Harold Ramis: 2 lines

  1. unmapped (autobiographical) · through Look Who's Talking (1989), which they directed: Harold Ramis ⇒ Look Who's Talking (the host's read). The speakers say the film is Heckerling's personal grievance about Ramis, who fathered her daughter Molly while Neil Israel believed the child was his.
    “The child that Neil Israel thought was his own was actually the byproduct of a years-long affair that she had had with Harold Ramos.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:24:44 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (roman a clef) · through Look Who's Talking (1989), which they directed: Harold Ramis ⇒ Look Who's Talking (the host's read). Kirstie Alley's character Molly shares a name with Heckerling's daughter and echoes Ramis's leave-my-wife promise.
    “Kirsty Alli's character is named Molly. Amy Heckerling and Harold Ramos's illegitimate daughter is named Molly.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:21:13 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Look Who's Talking (1989): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. lineage (sequel) · through Look Who's Talking Too (1990), which they directed: Look Who's Talking ⇒ Look Who's Talking Too (the host's read). The sequel keeps Willis, adds Roseanne for Joan Rivers, Damon Wayans, and Mel Brooks as Mr. Toilet.
    “Roseanne Barr replaces Joan Rivers.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:18:01 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. career (career enabler) · through Clueless (1995), which they directed: Look Who's Talking ⇒ Clueless (the host's read). The hit rescued Heckerling's career and so gave us Clueless.
    “she kind of rescued her entire career, and because of that, we get clueless”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:51:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Spartacus (1960): 1 line

  1. unmapped (reference) · through Clueless (1995), which they directed: Spartacus ⇒ Clueless (the host's read). Richard knew Spartacus mostly through the Clueless clip (and Community jokes) before watching it.
    “to have heard about this movie mostly through Clueless, but also just joked about in community for years”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:43:58 · Richard Lawson (0.60 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

Baby's Day Out (1994): 1 line

  1. lineage (influence) · through Look Who's Talking (1989), which they directed: Look Who's Talking ⇒ Baby's Day Out (the host's read). The baby-escapes-in-a-towed-car sequence is claimed as the origin of Baby's Day Out.
    “I feel like that entire, like the entirety of like baby's day out is based on that sequence in this movie.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:00:10 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Clueless (1995): 1 line, within their own work

  1. career (career enabler) · through Look Who's Talking (1989), which they directed: Look Who's Talking ⇒ Clueless (the host's read). The hit rescued Heckerling's career and so gave us Clueless.
    “she kind of rescued her entire career, and because of that, we get clueless”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:51:18 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Look Who's Talking Too (1990): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (sequel) · through Look Who's Talking (1989), which they directed: Look Who's Talking ⇒ Look Who's Talking Too (the host's read). The sequel keeps Willis, adds Roseanne for Joan Rivers, Damon Wayans, and Mel Brooks as Mr. Toilet.
    “Roseanne Barr replaces Joan Rivers.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 2:18:01 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Mean Girls (2004): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Clueless (1995), which they directed: Clueless ⇒ Mean Girls (the host's read). Clueless brought the teen genre back and made it female; Mean Girls inherits that more female guiding hand.
    “Clueless brought the genre back and I think people missed it.”
    The Rewatchables · ‘Mean Girls’ With Bill Simmons, Juliet Litman, and Amanda Dobbins · 0:07:10 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (7) everyone in directing

Writing (1) everyone in writing

What was said about them, by kind

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (authorship): Look Who's Talking → Amy Heckerling. Griffin ties the show's criterion that a director's movies reflect one person to this film, which feels personal despite studio calculation.
    “everything about this feels like it was made by one person.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:49:39 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Amy Heckerling: She handwrites scripts, lives on the Upper West Side with her mother, and stays up until 5 a.m. with coffee; a New York Times piece asked why nobody greenlights her anymore.
    “stays up until 5 o'clock in the morning drinking coffee and handwriting scripts.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 0:46:08 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Amy Heckerling: Hillary is invited to theorize that Mikey's first word, dada, is a science fact because it is easier to say.
    “kid always says data first. Because it's easier to say, right?”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Look Who's Talking with Hillary Busis · 1:55:56 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)