All About Steve

Rated PG13 for brief langauge, some sexuality, tense scenes

Starring Sandra Bullock, Bradley Cooper, Thomas Haden Church, Ken Jeong, DJ Qualls

Mary Horowitz is a very skilled cruciverbalist, or crossword puzzle writer to you and me, and is proud of her work - crossword puzzles are her passion in life, however Mary is not like "normal" people. She wears bright red boots, and while all her coworkers talk about going out and having fun, none of which seems to faze eccentric Mary, who lives with parents, talks to her guinea pig who seems to be her best friend, and can't seem to find Mr. Right.

Her parents decide to set her up on a blind date with Steve, an attractive news cameraman who goes where the story is to capture the action with his crew. Mary is immediately attracted to Steve physically, but her aggressive and eccentric personally frightens him, saying he has to go cover a news story. He tells Mary he wishes she could join him on the road, but since she has a join it just won't work out. Leaving her with his umbrella, he quickly tries to get far far away from her.

Mary on the other hand becomes completely obsessed with Steve, which causes her to lose her job, so she decides to take him up on his offer to go on the road with him, following he all across the country to various breaking news stories. He tries to explain to her that he was just being nice when he said that, however his reporter, Hartman Hughes, decides it'd be fun to egg Mary on and encourage her obession with Steve.

After a freak accident on the road, Mary becomes breaking news in a bit of a plot twist.

The theme of the movie is finding yourself and being happy with who you are - just be yourself rather than try to fit into what society deems as "normal". As Mary says at the end of the film "Why should you have to change to be 'normal'? All you have to do is find someone who's as 'normal' as you are."

This was cute, quirky film brought to us by the same crew that brought us another Bullock hit, Miss Congeniality. If you liked that one, you'll most likely enjoy this one as well.