All About Steve (2009)
Average Rating: 2.6/10
Reviews Counted: 134
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 125
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: 2.7/10
Critic Reviews: 36
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 33
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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Movie Info
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 Drive... -
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 Supervi... -
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 Power...
Receptionist -
Charlyne Yi
Young Protestor -
Lucy Davis
Patient -
Larry Dorf
MSNBC Reporter -
Christina Carlisi
Teacher -
Tyrone Giordano
Dad
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All Critics (134) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (125) | DVD (2)
All About Steve is a messy assemblage of clumsy sight gags, winking reaction shots and disingenuous populist genuflection to the idea that there's no such thing as normal. We all see a little bit of Mary in ourselves, don't we? Don't we?
Top CriticFasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy review.
Just when it seems All About Steve couldn't grow any more insufferable, it turns strangely sentimental.
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.
Packaged 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] refreshingly quirky comedy.
Mary's supposed to be a plucky free spirit, but mostly she's a chatty bore who's emotionally clueless.
A head-scratcher of a comedy starring the increasingly enigmatic Sandra Bullock.
Bullock, as both co-producer and star, makes sure All About Steve sparkles with easy laughs.
On paper, a crazy romcom starring Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper could only be a good thing. Wrong.
Kooky? Hardly. Cringing? Most assuredly.
It's so bad, you might feel a little sorry for Bullock -- but don't take pity on her. Watching All About Steve will only make you feel worse.
Let's say you're the kind of person who has a morbid curiosity for films that defy logic, the ones that blow your mind with their badness. Then I can wholeheartedly recommend you see this one.
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.
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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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