All About Steve (2009)
Average Rating: 2.6/10
Reviews Counted: 127
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 119
All About Steve is an oddly creepy, sour film, featuring a heroine so desperate and peculiar that audiences may be more likely to pity than root for her.
Average Rating: 2.6/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 30
All About Steve is an oddly creepy, sour film, featuring a heroine so desperate and peculiar that audiences may be more likely to pity than root for her.
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A brilliant crossword-puzzle designer travels across the country in hopes of convincing a CCN cameraman that the pair is meant to be together, only to find her quest taking an unexpected turn in this romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, andThomas Haden Church. Despite the fact that she has only gone on one short date with the man, a love-struck puzzle creator becomes enamored with a successful cameraman and follows him to a series of media events in hopes that the feeling is
Sep 4, 2009 Wide
Dec 22, 2009
$33.8M
20th Century Fox
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Cast
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Sandra Bullock
Mary Horowitz -
Bradley Cooper
Steve -
Thomas Haden Church
Hartman Hughes -
Ken Jeong
Angus -
D.J. Qualls
Howard -
Howard Hesseman
Mr. Horowitz -
Keith David
Corbitt -
Beth Grant
Mrs. Horowitz -
Katy Mixon
Elizabeth -
M.C. Gainey
Norm the Truck Driver -
Holmes Osborne
Soloman -
Jason Jones
Vasquez -
Carlos Gomez
Rescue Supervisor -
George Sharperson
Rescuer -
Luenell
Protestor Lydia -
Joe D'Angerio
ABC News Producer -
Kerri Kenney-Silver
Miss Hancock -
Stephanie Venditto
KNYT Reporter -
P.J. Marino
KNYT Sound Tech -
Wayne Grace
Retired Mine Supervisor -
Mickey Giacomazzi
Skinny Fireman -
Bridget Shergalis
Mini-Mary -
James Martin Kelly
Mine Safety Expert -
Andrew Caldwell
Young Rescuer -
Bryan Moore
Assistant -
Rachel Sterling
Booby Botanist -
Regino Montes
Maintenance Guy -
Elliot Cho
Daniel -
Joy Darash
Hipster Girl -
Geraldo Rivera
Himself -
Beverly Polcyn
Old Lady -
Misha Di Bono
Paula -
Dori Kancher
Payroll Clerk -
Bone Hampton
Security Guard -
Darcy Fowers
Guest Expert -
Kelli Kirkland Powers
Receptionist -
Charlyne Yi
Young Protestor -
Lucy Davis
Patient -
Larry Dorf
MSNBC Reporter -
Christina Carlisi
Teacher -
Tyrone Giordano
Dad
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All Critics (128) | Top Critics (32) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (119) | DVD (2)
Mary is a memorable comic creation for all the wrong reasons: glibly written, offensively characterised and bizarrely dressed, she's the classic screwball ditz taken to grotesque and at times unwatchable extremes.
Top CriticPackaged as a romantic comedy but devoid of comedy or romance, this baffling train wreck stars Sandra Bullock as a tediously kooky constructor of crossword puzzles for a Sacramento newspaper.
A talented director might have made Bullock seem like a comic genius, but Phil Traill has no control over tone, leaving the audience unsure whether to laugh or cry.
It's dreadful.
Oops, sorry, we're not supposed to think of Mary as mentally ill, psychologically unbalanced, or any of those painful things, just full of gumption and sunny determination.
There's no footing in reality. Nothing about it feels authentic.
All About Steve is survivable. You'll never see such passion for a crossword anywhere else.
The film's complete failure to engage on any level, much less comedic, lies entirely at the feet of Bullock.
A disappointingly disposable romantic comedy...
All About Steve is constructed as a romantic comedy, but Mary's tireless, stalker-like behavior suggests that this ought to be a horror film.
It's baffling that some of our favourite actors would sign up for this slightly creepy, desperately unfunny twaddle. Don't encourage them by watching it.
This deeply unfunny comedy misfires at every turn.
One of the ropiest would-be screwball comedies conceived recently.
A film that looks as if it's been through 1,001 test screenings, script drafts and reshoots, each unfunnier and more muddled than the last.
Whatever disturbed and previously untapped audience this is meant to find, it's certainly novel.
Director Phil Traill and screenwriter Kim Barker should take some credit for attempting something original, but ultimately what they come up with is an ensemble cast of non-entities and the overriding feeling that they're exploiting the lead character.
A handful of wry TV news graphics provide welcome amusement, but Bullock has never been worse and the rest of the cast are left to solve the puzzle of their own presence.
Romcom? Send-up? Romcom send-up? No one seems to know, least of all director Phil Traill, whose failure to deliver a consistent tone - or, y'know, any laughs - leaves his capable cast hung out to dry.
The film is such a misjudged farrago that it makes Miss Congeniality seem like a masterpiece.
Sandra Bullock turns in an excruciatingly kooky performance in this ill-conceived stalker romance.
This weirdly unfunny comedy is like Clint Eastwood's Play Misty For Me seen through the eyes of the stalker, and played unsuccessfully for laughs.
Audience Reviews for All About Steve
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- Mary Horowitz: If you love someone set them free. If you have to stalk them. They probably weren't yours in the first place.
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- Mary Horowitz: If you love someone set them free . If you have to stalk them. They probably weren't yours in the first place.
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