All About Steve (2009)

Director:

Phil Traill

Writer (WGA):

Kim Barker (written by)

Release Date:

4 September 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

From The Producer Of Miss Congeniality

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Eccentric | Pretending To Be Dead | Camera Man | Vigil | Fired From The Job

Cast

Sandra Bullock	...	Mary Horowitz
Thomas Haden Church	...	Hartman Hughes
Bradley Cooper	...	Steve
Ken Jeong	...	Angus
DJ Qualls	...	Howard
Keith David	...	Corbitt
Howard Hesseman	...	Mr. Horowitz
Beth Grant	...	Mrs. Horowitz
Katy Mixon	...	Elizabeth
M.C. Gainey	...	Norm the Truck Driver
Holmes Osborne	...	Soloman
Delaney Hamilton	...	Little Deaf Girl
Jason Jones	...	Vasquez
Carlos Gómez	...	Rescue Supervisor
George Sharperson	...	Rescuer

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for sexual content including innuendos.

Runtime:

USA:98 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #44314) | Canada:G (Quebec) | Canada:PG (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) | UK:12A | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | Ireland:12A

Filming Locations:

Santa Clarita, California, USA

Company:

Fortis Films

Trivia:

In the scene when Mary is soaking in the tub, the opera piece that is playing is being sung by Helga Bullock - Sandra's mother.

Goofs:

Errors in geography: The medical clinic scene is supposed to be in Oklahoma City, a flat city on the edge of the grassland of the great plains, but in the film it is surrounded by large hills covered with a western-desert-style pine-tree & bare dirt landscape.

Quotes:

Mary Horowitz: I will eat you like a mountain lion.

Movie Connections:

References All About Eve (1950)

Soundtrack:

Tall Red Boots

All About Stupidity

The film shows that some people in Hollywood do not understand the distinction between IQ and wisdom. Sandra Bullock plays a person with an intellectual IQ at one end of the scale and a social IQ at the other end. We are supposed to believe that this is the cause of her problem, when in reality it is her shallowness. Her shallowness (and concomitant lack of character) makes the whole film ring so false that at the end of the movie one cannot even decipher what the meaning of the film was. Was it that being different is OK? If that is the case, then the film was a horrible failure. Or perhaps it was supposed to be that one should follow one's heart and dreams. Well now, that wouldn't be a bad message if the dream was based upon something *real* rather than the product of some delusion or if the goal was something noble and meaningful. But alas, it is not, and just as Bullock's character in the movie runs into a sink hole the size of Texas without even noticing it, the plot of "All About Steve" also descends just as unbelievably into a contrived mess of improbable people, situations, and logic. If you want to truly test how much of a Sandra Bullock fan you are, I dare you to watch this movie.