All About Steve [Blu-ray] Overview
After going out on one date, an eccentric crossword puzzle creator follows a news cameraman across the country to convince him that they belong togeth
All About Steve [Blu-ray] Specifications
A hunky TV news cameraman named Steve (Bradley Cooper, hot off of surprise hit The Hangover) gets stalked by a lonely crossword puzzle creator named Mary (Sandra Bullock, in a career resurgence after The Proposal) in the comedy All About Steve. Although only one screenwriter is credited, All About Steve feels like it's been clumsily patched together from a dozen different versions of itself. The story makes no sense and there's very little that resembles recognizable human behavior...and yet, for that very reason, the movie exerts a perverse fascination. Some parts are actually funny--Thomas Haden Church (Sideways), as a reporter hungry for an anchor position, unleashes arias of manipulative babble--but most of the movie is just baffling. The filmmakers seem to think they're sending a heartwarming message about embracing yourself, no matter how out of the mainstream you may be. Unfortunately, all of the "quirky" people come across as brain-damaged because they're not really people, they're emblems of "uniqueness." Mary is meant to be endearingly eccentric, yet her social ineptness verges on schizophrenia or severe autism. At every turn, All About Steve unintentionally reminds the viewer that someone wrote this, that someone thought this bit of behavior or this turn of phrase would somehow make us like this character or find them charming. Unfortunately, that someone was very, very off the mark. The result--seeing the bald intentions under the failed result--is a jarring yet oddly compelling experience. Also featuring DJ Qualls (Hustle & Flow) and Katy Mixon (Eastbound & Down). --Bret Fetzer
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Customer Reviews
But I enjoyed this film ... to the point to see twice. His character is not so far-fetched as some might play on ... I understand frank detail as a break from the norm, and a bridge away from intimacy. There are people out there that are full of words as a way for the rooms ... many, unfortunately, "diagnosed" with Asperger syndrome. Bullock role as a woman so impressed with the love, yet so removed from social norms, which is not far-fetched. Many of us have notIdea of what to do and when to do it when it comes to matters of the heart. Understandably, his character can be eccentric than most, but that makes this film so fun to love. His character has a certain naivete that many people lose to adapt to cite a content-social norms. The best part is that the ending focused on the real true love with itself that it is more important than landing the boy.
I think it's definitely worthobserved.
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