Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church, Bradley Cooper

Convinced that a CNN cameraman is her true love, an eccentric crossword puzzler (Bullock) trails him as he travels all over the country, hoping to convince him that they belong together.

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PG-13, 1 hr. 39 min.

Directed by: Phil Traill

Release Date: September 4, 2009

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DVD Release Date: December 22, 2009

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  • September 20, 2009
    a very strange tale that begins as yet another summer romantic comedy but somehow turns into a weird kinda salute to uniqueness (read: nerdiness). ms. bullock endeavors mightily to make creepy-stalker-types okey-dokey (only if they happen to save a your run-of-the-mill everyday ...( read more)endangered child while they're out stalking), but still I left the theater shaking disorientation from my head.
  • September 16, 2009
    All About Steve is something of a mess. There are too many things wrong with it, and no matter the actors they put in it, it's not going to be very good.

    All About Steve is more two movies in one, and neither can focus enough on anything to be entertaining. On one side, there is...( read more) Sandra Bullock, whom I really enjoy watching (just not in this movie), as Mary, and she goes on these crazy trips to find Steve, a camera man for a news station. Leave Steve and his group out of it, and get someone besides Bullock to do this, and you might be able to make something salvageable about a person who is "different and fighting to come to grips with it as she goes on these crazy adventures," and have it be enjoyable. On the other hand, get Haden Church, Cooper, and Jeong in a movie as a likable but obnoxious camera crew, and you might be on to something there. You'd just have to leave Mary out of it. Put them together, and you've got a mess.

    Mary, Bullocks character, needed to have someone else play the part. She didn't seem to be able to get the character right, she changed some through the movie, and she seemed almost to have a mental handicap through most of the movie. Cooper's character, Steve, became paranoid very quickly, and went from being one type of person to another, then back to the other guy, to some sort of gay hybrid of the two.

    All About Steve is ultimately just a big mess that would have been better served either with more rewrites, or a few less, depending on how it actually went in development. At either rate, there is some entertainment value if it's late, and being shown on TV or a movie channel. There were some funny parts.
  • November 7, 2009



  • November 6, 2009
    Was not very funny at all. Sandra Bullock blew it on this one. Took a nap in the middle of the day while watching it.
  • November 6, 2009
    this was a OK, movie that was a little shaky on the plot, and it had no propose. but over that this is a good time killer.
  • November 4, 2009
    Looks funny :) and not atypical
  • November 2, 2009
    might end up seein this....
  • November 2, 2009
    A little slow to start, but it had its laughs.
  • November 1, 2009
    i want to see this movie
  • November 1, 2009
    Average Sandra Bullock movie but did deliver the laughs.

Critic Reviews


September 8, 2009
A.O. Scott, At the Movies

It's dreadful. full review

September 4, 2009
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle

There's no footing in reality. Nothing about it feels authentic. full review

September 4, 2009
Kurt Loder, MTV

Clueless. full review

September 4, 2009
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

[An] unwatchable, unbearably unfunny farce in which Sandra Bullock hits the lowest point of her career... full review

September 4, 2009
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com

A romantic comedy so lunkheaded and ill-conceived that it makes your average, idiotic Kate Hudson-Matthew McConaughey outing look like the reincarnation of Hepburn and Grant. full review

September 4, 2009
Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle

There's no footing in reality. Nothing about it feels authentic: not the blathering Mary, not the lifeless secondary characters, not the bromide-happy dialogue or the plot that twists less often than ... full review

September 3, 2009
Colin Covert, The Minneapolis Star Tribune

While Bullock is often cast as the kook you want to hug, here she is a nut you want to run away from. full review

September 3, 2009
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

Just the latest entry on a long list of movies that aren't even close to the great screwball comedy Bullock is capable of making. May it be the last. full review

September 3, 2009
Claudia Puig, USA Today

Why would such talented actors as Bullock, Cooper, Thomas Haden Church and Ken Jeong sign on for something so dreadful? full review

September 3, 2009
Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

The only laughs elicited by All About Steve are those of incredulity. full review

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Comments


  • sabiransari32
    September 30, 2009
    hai i am sabir from india
  • jonhandschin
    March 5, 2009
    This is it.
  • welice93
    January 30, 2009
    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.

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