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.
All About Steve (2009)
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Reviews Counted:122
Fresh:7
Rotten:115
Average Rating:2.5/10
Consensus: 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.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating] for sexual content including innuendos.
Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:Sep 4, 2009 Wide Wide
Box Office: $33,806,061
Synopsis: Sandra Bullock plays eccentric crossword puzzle constructor Mary Horowitz who, after one short blind date, falls for handsome cable news cameraman Steve (Cooper). Convinced they are soul mates,... Sandra Bullock plays eccentric crossword puzzle constructor Mary Horowitz who, after one short blind date, falls for handsome cable news cameraman Steve (Cooper). Convinced they are soul mates, Mary follows Steve across the country, encouraged by the self-serving actions of news reporter Hartman Hughes (Church). Along the way, Mary befriends an endearing group of oddballs who embrace her idiosyncrasies. --© Fox [More]
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church, Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church, Bradley Cooper, Ken Jeong, Keith David, M.C. Gainey, DJ Qualls, Beth Grant, Howard Hesseman
Director: Phil Traill
Director: Phil Traill
Screenwriter: Kim Barker
Producer: Sandra Bullock, Mary McLaglen
Composer: Christophe Beck
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Reviews for All About Steve
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.
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.
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.
A witty satire on TV news? No. An inspiring lesson about following your heart? Nope. The worst comedy you'll see all year? Oh yes.
Make no mistake, this is one mess of a film and yet if you forgive it some of its bewildering failings there is still a weird charm to its madness.
In which Sandra Bullock flails through another non-com of an awfulness she seems unerringly inclined to repeat.
A comedy so irritating and cheerless that you wonder if the cast were blackmailed into appearing.
All About Steve won't appeal to everyone but it's by no means the disaster its terrible reviews are making it out to be and is ultimately worth seeing for its attempt to do something different.
If terrible movies were car crashes, this 101-minute horror-show is a coachload of orphans slamming headlong into the Hoover Dam - and 2010 is unlikely to serve up anything worse.
As Hollywood's most box-office-friendly female star, surely it's about time Sandra Bullock started challenging herself with something more worthy of her comic talents.
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