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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.

Runtime: 1 hr 39 mins

Genre: Comedies

US 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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Her most irritating and unfunniest film to date.

Full Review Source: The Age (Australia) | comment Comment
10/22/09
Jim Schembri
Jim Schembri
The Age (Australia)
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Despite the cringe early on there is a validation about finding your emotional and intellectual match, not just the fantasy dreamboat.

Full Review Source: At the Movies (Australia) | comment Comment
10/21/09
Margaret Pomeranz
Margaret Pomeranz
At the Movies (Australia)
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The taint of desperation lies so heavily on the entire exercise.

Full Review Source: Sydney Morning Herald | comment Comment
10/21/09
Sandra Hall
Sandra Hall
Sydney Morning Herald
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One of the leading candidates for worst film of 2009.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine Australasia | comment Comment
10/21/09
Hilton Thomas
Hilton Thomas
Empire Magazine Australasia
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A sad excuse for a film which meshes too many ideas without sticking to one, leaving Sandra Bullock once again flailing in a ridiculous role.

Full Review Source: FILMINK (Australia) | comment Comment
10/21/09
FILMINK (Australia)
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Disaster is an eight letter word that aptly describes this grossly misjudged, overplayed, unfunny comedy about a hyper crossword constructor who stalks her blind date. Filled with low points worth of eye-rolling...

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
10/19/09
Louise Keller
Louise Keller
Urban Cinefile
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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.

Full Review Source: Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema | comment Comment
01/31/10
Mark Pfeiffer
Mark Pfeiffer
Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

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.

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01/22/10
Rosamund Witcher
Rosamund Witcher
Heat Magazine

This deeply unfunny comedy misfires at every turn.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
01/15/10
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

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.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/15/10
Tom Huddlestone
Tom Huddlestone
Time Out

One of the ropiest would-be screwball comedies conceived recently.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
01/15/10
Ben Machell
Ben Machell
Times [UK]
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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.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
01/15/10
Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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Whatever disturbed and previously untapped audience this is meant to find, it’s certainly novel.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
01/15/10
Tim Robey
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph

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.

Full Review Source: Digital Spy | comment Comment
01/15/10
Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds
Digital Spy

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.

Full Review Source: Sky Movies | comment Comment
01/15/10
Elliott Noble
Elliott Noble
Sky Movies

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.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
01/15/10
Rob James
Rob James
Total Film

The film is such a misjudged farrago that it makes Miss Congeniality seem like a masterpiece.

Full Review Source: This is London | comment Comment
01/15/10
Derek Malcolm
Derek Malcolm
This is London

Sandra Bullock turns in an excruciatingly kooky performance in this ill-conceived stalker romance.

Full Review Source: Radio Times | comment Comment
01/15/10
Karen Krizanovich
Karen Krizanovich
Radio Times

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.

Full Review Source: Daily Mail [UK] | comment Comment
01/15/10
Christopher Tookey
Christopher Tookey
Daily Mail [UK]

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.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
01/15/10
David Edwards
David Edwards
Daily Mirror [UK]
 
 
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