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All About Steve

A comedy that clings.

2009 · 1h 39m · PG-13 Comedy
Directed by Phil Traill

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Overview

After one short blind date, Mary Horowitz, a brilliant and eccentric crossword constructor, is convinced that Steve, a CCN cameraman, is her soul mate. Because his job takes him hither and yon, she crisscrosses the country following Steve, with the encouragement of a reporter, turning up at media events he's at to convince him they are perfect for each other. Along the way, she befriends an assortment of misfits who accept her for who she is, leading her to reassess her reasons for this strange journey.

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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?

Ella Taylor, NPR
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Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy review.

Kyle Smith, New York Post
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Just when it seems All About Steve couldn't grow any more insufferable, it turns strangely sentimental.

Christy Lemire, Associated Press
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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.

Tom Huddleston, Time Out
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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.

Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader

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