RottenTomatoes.com
Log In | Register | What is RT?
Check out the new RT Community
  • Home
  • Movies
  • DVD
  • Celebrities
  • News
  • Critics
  • Trailers & Pictures
  • CommunityBeta
  • Box Office
  • | In Theaters
  • | Opening
  • | Upcoming
  • | Best Of
  • | Certified Fresh
  • | Showtimes
RT Search Powered by Google
help icon Enhanced RT
searches on Google
Click here to turn on enhanced search results from RT on your Google searches.
 
Movies / On DVD / Steal Me
Steal Me

Rate this Movie Help Icon

  • Write a Review
  • Read Reviews
  • Add to List
  • Get this Movie
  • Buy Poster External Icon
  • Visit Official Site External Icon
Bookmark and Share

Steal Me (2007)

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
44 %
Tomatometer
Template ImageTemplate Image

How does the Tomatometer work Help Icon

Reviews Counted:16

Fresh:7

Rotten:9

Average Rating:5.4/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Sep 9, 2005 Limited

Synopsis: In Steal Me, writer/director Melissa Painter (Admissions, Wildflowers) has crafted a refreshingly honest portrayal of relationships - sexual and otherwise - around a 15-year-old kleptomaniac boy,... In Steal Me, writer/director Melissa Painter (Admissions, Wildflowers) has crafted a refreshingly honest portrayal of relationships - sexual and otherwise - around a 15-year-old kleptomaniac boy, Jake (Danny Alexander), who arrives in a small Montana town searching for his prostitute mother. Through Jake’s trouble of tracking down his mother, he befriends Tucker (Hunter Parrish), a corn-fed local boy who catches Jake red-handed stealing the radio right out of his truck. After a foot chase and a brief scuffle, the boys ultimately become friends, discovering that each has something the other wants -- Jake has a quiet mystery and total freedom, while Tucker has stability and a happy home. At first, Jake brings Tucker out of his shell, convincing him to pursue his longtime crush, Lily Rose (Paz de la Huerta). However, when Tucker’s family reluctantly takes Jake in, offering him food, shelter and eventually a job, things grow more complicated. Tucker’s mother, Sarah (Cara Seymour), uneasy about Jake being there insists he sleep in the barn, but over time a bond begins to grow. Jake, however, is an accomplished and incorrigible thief, and begins stealing small items around the house, not because they are valuable, but for the fetish factor and sentimental value. Soon he meets the neighbor, Grace (Toby Poser), a newly single mom twice his age. An affair ensues; one that is romantic from Jake’s perspective, but simply sexual from Grace’s point of view. Eventually, Sarah catches them in the act, furious with Grace she demands that she keep her hands off Jake. Later Sarah consoles him as he lay in her lap in tears. Unable to differentiate between motherly affection and sexual undertones, Jake hits on Sarah, but she quickly states she cares for him just as a kid. Moments after Tucker catches his mother in the act of comforting Jake and thinks it’s something more; in turn, he begins to shut Jake out of his life. Jake turns to the local troublemakers for friendship, only to be provoked into a breaking and entering scheme, where they set him up by tipping off the cops. He gets away without being caught, but comes home to discover the police had been there – prompting Tucker’s parents to go through Jake’s belongings in the barn. When he notices that they’ve found his box of stolen trinkets, he runs away in humiliation, not realizing that they were touched by their discovery. Certain they had finally learned his horrible secret, that he is a bad kid at heart, Jake sets back to a lonely life on the road. -- © Cineville Films and Picture Entertainment Production [More]

Starring: Hunter Parrish, John Terry, Cara Seymour

Starring: Hunter Parrish, John Terry, Cara Seymour

  • Trailers
  • Pictures
1 - 5 of 11

See More Movie Trailers & Pictures

Get This Movie

Rent DVD
 
 

Click on the "ADD" button to put this movie into your Netflix queue.

 
 
Buy DVD
 
 
Release:

Jun 19, 2007

No Details Exist
 
 

Reviews for Steal Me

  • T-Meter Critics
  • Top Critics
  • RT Community
  • My Critics
  • My Friends
  • DVD
 
 
1 - 17 (sorted by date)
Text View
Arrange By:Fresh | Rotten | Comments | Name | Source | Date
 
 

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
12/06/05
Film Threat

[Painter's] best achievement is the way she skillfully manipulates her almost-known cast into complicated characters that you can care about.

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
10/06/05
Harry Haun
Harry Haun
Film Journal International
N/R

Click to read the article

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
09/26/05
AV Club

Steal Me is a beautifully realized small film of understated power.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
09/22/05
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

It's not really original stuff, and there are few genuine surprises, but Painter skillfully layers visual details and off-the-cuff dialogue into a smart, condescension-free piece on small towns and the complicated lives they contain.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
09/22/05
Ernest Hardy
Ernest Hardy
L.A. Weekly

The often meandering Steal Me is a film that says just enough and leaves the rest to us to work out.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Insiders | comment Comment
09/16/05
Jonathan W. Hickman
Jonathan W. Hickman
Entertainment Insiders

Everything about Steal Me, the new feature from the writer and director Melissa Painter, feels dangerously overripe.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
09/09/05
Jeannette Catsoulis
Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

Drifter comes to small town, gets all the ladies hot. But it's not the steamy, literate Picnic, starring William Holden — instead it's the pretentious Steal Me, an ­artily photographed, puzzlingly acted ­indie.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
09/09/05
Jami Bernard
Jami Bernard
New York Daily News
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

Solid performances can't save Melissa Painter's pretentious teen drama Steal Me, which plays like a cross between Dangerous Skin (without the gay sex) and Picnic (without the production values or credible situations).

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
09/09/05
Lou Lumenick
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

If Alexander's performance isn't exactly a revelation, he's modest enough to allow pros like Seymour, a gifted actress usually relegated to supporting roles, do their thing.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
09/09/05
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

The plot is never overwrought, but it never fully ripens either, mostly because of some of the actors' self-consciousness and the stop-and-go pace.

Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | comment Comment
09/09/05
Kent Turner
Kent Turner
Film-Forward.com

The result is a film imbued with the tender awkwardness and poignancy of those first wary explorations--those electric moments that occur in the small space between childhood and newly discovered maturity.

Full Review Source: E! Online | comment Comment
09/09/05
E! Online

Big Sky Country offers up an introspective teen drama about a teenage kleptomaniac who can’t steal a break.

Full Review Source: Monsters and Critics | comment Comment
09/07/05
Ron Wilkinson
Ron Wilkinson
Monsters and Critics

Steal Me has at least one indie-film cliché too many.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
09/06/05
Ben Kenigsberg
Ben Kenigsberg
Village Voice
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

Nobody in the film is going to steal the audience’s attention span.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
08/20/05
Jeremy Mathews
Jeremy Mathews
Film Threat

What it lacks is believable dialogue, credible relationships and a serious foundation for its overripe psychology.

Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
08/20/05
John Anderson
John Anderson
Variety
Top Critic Icon Top Critic

A garbage bin for contrived poetic platitudes and ruminations on sex and stealing.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
08/19/05
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
 
 
1 - 17 (sorted by date)
Text View
See All

More DVDs

Close
Top Rentals
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
45% 45% Ice Age: Dawn of the D…
19% 19% Transformers: Revenge …
55% 55% Orphan
43% 43% The Proposal
26% 26% Land of the Lost

More Rentals…

New On DVD This Week
Tomatometer Percentage Movie
98% 98% Up
88% 88% Ballast
67% 67% The Merry Gentleman

More New Releases…

See All

RT On Current TV

The Rotten Tomatoes Show on Current TV

DIRECTV 358 | Comcast 107 | DISH Network 196 | More...

Learn how you can be part of the show

More...

What’s Hot On RT

60+ New Moon pics

60+ New Moon pics

You want Twilight images? We got 'em!

Transylmania

Transylmania

Red band trailer for the vampire comedy!

2012

2012

Major havoc in these new clips!

Salt trailer

Salt trailer

Angelina Jolie! Espionage! Check it out!

Other News

Close
  • Top Stories
  • Popular
  • Interviews
 
 

Comments

 
 
Top Stories
Headlines Comments
  
  • Rachel McAdams Rumored for Spider-Man 4 Source: Mania.com
36
  • Danny Elfman Leaves The Wolfman Source: Cinemusic.net
11
  • Oldboy Remake Rumored Dead Source: Latino Review
5
  • Francis Lawrence Directing a Futuristic Sgt. Rock Source: Hollywood Reporter
1
  • Can Avatar Make Money? Source: New York Times
84
  • Robert Pattinson Says Breaking Dawn Could Roll in Fall 2010 Source: Collider.com
18
  • Joe Johnston Talks The Wolfman Source: Ain't It Cool News
7
  • Jason Schwartzman Talks Scott Pilgrim Source: Collider.com
0
  • Weekly Ketchup: Abrams eyes Micronauts, Aykroyd as Yogi Bear
99
  • J.J. Abrams Producing Micronauts Movie? Source: Wall Street Journal
11
Popular
Headlines Comments
  
  • Total Recall: George Clooney's Best Movies
92
  • Critics Consensus: A Christmas Carol Dazzles But Disappoints
43
  • Ho-ho-horror! 10 Scary Christmas Movies
36
  • Weekly Ketchup: Abrams eyes Micronauts, Aykroyd as Yogi Bear
33
  • Box Office Guru Wrapup: Christmas Carol Tops, Precious Rocks
32
  • Friday Harvest: Prince of Persia, The Road, and more!
26
  • RT on DVD: Up, the Ultimate Watchmen Cut, and More
25
  • John Hurt Talks Harry Potter, Quentin Crisp and Alien - The RT Interview
14
Interviews
Headlines Comments
  
  • John Hurt Talks Harry Potter, Quentin Crisp and Alien - The RT Interview
14
  • Terry Gilliam Talks Doctor Parnassus
15
  • Wes Anderson Talks Fantastic Mr. Fox - RT Interview
8
  • Wolverine Creator Len Wein Talks About the Film
28
  • Gavin Hood Talks Wolverine; Possible Sequel
28
  • Duncan Jones talks Moon, Sam Rockwell, and Mute
14
  • Emma Stone talks Zombieland - RT Interview
40
  • Michael Moore: The RT Interview
139
  • Andrea Arnold talks Fish Tank - RT Interview
4
  • Neill Blomkamp talks District 9 - RT Interview
51
 
 

Sponsored Links

Around The Network

  • Steal Me at Rotten Tomatoes
  • Steal Me at AskMen

Fresh Links

Featured
Worst Movie Biopics
Worst Movie Biopics External Link

Moviefone brings us 9 failed attempts at biographical films.

Top Cameron Crowe Moments
Top Cameron Crowe Moments External Link

TIME reminisces on the 10 most iconic moments from the films of Cameron Crowe.

November Films
November Films External Link

BuzzSugar wants to know which movies coming out this month you're most looking forward to.

The New Cult Canon
The New Cult Canon External Link

The AV Club takes a look back at Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

 
 
About| Site Map| Help| RT To Go| Contact Us| Critics Submission| Linking to RT| Licensing| Movie List| Games| Celebs List| Newsletter
IGN Logo

IGN.com | GameSpy | Comrade | Arena | FilePlanet | GameSpy Technology
TeamXbox | Planets | Vaults | VE3D | CheatsCodesGuides | GameStats | GamerMetrics
AskMen.com | Rotten Tomatoes | Direct2Drive | Green Pixels


By continuing past this page, and by the continued use of this site, you agree to be bound by and abide by the User Agreement.
Copyright 1998-2009, IGN Entertainment, Inc. About IGN | Support | Advertise | Privacy Policy | User Agreement | Subscribe to RT's XML feed! IGN RSS Feeds
IGN's enterprise databases running Oracle, SQL and MySQL are professionally monitored and managed by Pythian Remote DBA
Certain product data ©1995-present Muze, Inc. For personal use only. All rights reserved.