Line #7 Film/AllAboutSteve


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3	''All About Steve'' is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Creator/PhilTraill and starring Creator/SandraBullock, Creator/ThomasHadenChurch, and Creator/BradleyCooper. Creator/KenJeong, Creator/DJQualls, Creator/KatyMixon, Creator/BethGrant, Creator/HowardHesseman and Creator/KeithDavid play supporting roles.
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5	Mary Horowitz (Bullock) is a proud cruciverbalist (writer of CrosswordPuzzle) for the ''Sacramento Herald'' newspaper, and a very awkward young woman. Her parents set her up for a date with the eponymous Steve (Cooper), a local newspaper cameraman, and she is smitten. After driving him off with her overly-aggressive sexual advances, and subsequently losing her job in a crossword incident, Mary decides that Steve is her destiny and begins following him as he pursues the news.
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8	!! This film demonstrates the following tropes:
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10	* AbhorrentAdmirer: Mary very quickly becomes this to Steve.
11	* BannisterSlide: Mary attempts one after she reaches her Steve epiphany, but slows to a painful halt due to too much friction.
12	* BlindDate: A Blind Date arranged between Mary and Steve kicks off the main plot.
13	* ButtMonkey: Angus (Jeong) is this to the news crew, the butt of their jokes and general gopher.
14	* CuteClumsyGirl: Mary is very enthusiastic, and tends to forget what's in her way as she pursues Steve.
15	* DaEditor: Corbitt (David) is the owner of the TV Station that the news team is working for. He threatens to fire them multiple times as he gives his assignments.
16	* DidntThinkThisThrough: If you're working for a big important news paper, and you send them a crossword puzzle that's ''unprofessionally'' all about a man nobody else has heard of, chances are you're going to get fired. Just ask Mary.
17	* DissonantSerenity: After some advice from Hughes, Mary tries a calmer approach towards Steve. He [[WrongGenreSavvy mistakes]] her new-found calm for this trope.
18	* GenkiGirl: Mary hits all the stops, the rapid speech, the unrelenting cheerfulness, flailing arms when she gets excited...
19	* TheGlomp: Mary performs a textbook example on Steve at the hospital, a flying tackle which just barely avoids knocking him over.
20	* HeelRealization: Hughes has this moment.
21	* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Korean Ken Jeong has dialogue indicating that he's Vietnamese although he also curses in Japanese and Mandarin during the movie.
22	* RageBreakingPoint: Angus can only put up with so much absurdity. But after putting up with Steve's paranoia and Hughes' ego, Angus finally blows up and calls the two out on what bugs him (respectively, Steve thinking Mary is a psycho and Hughes' excessive tanning).
23	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Mary is prone to this due to her job as a cruciverbalist, also sprinkling in gratuitous foreign languages
24	* SmallNameBigEgo: Hughes is convinced that he's the next big thing in the news.
25	* StalkerWithACrush: Mary is an unusual female example.
26	* StalkingIsFunnyIfItIsFemaleAfterMale: Hughes (Church) finds the situation hilarious and encourages Mary every chance he gets. Steve is terrified, and convinced that Mary wants to skin him and wear him as a suit. Mary is largely oblivious that her behavior might be considered stalking.
27	* TitleDrop: After the first date, Mary releases a crossword puzzle entitled "All About Steve" where every answer is some aspect of Steve.
28	* WasItReallyWorthIt: Later in the movie, Mary comes to realize that, no, chasing Steve down was not worth losing her job or leaving behind her family or her home. Not one mile she's chased Steve has brought her closer to being his girlfriend than it has brought her to being his stalker.
29	* WrongGenreSavvy: Played with. While Mary ''is'' stalking Steve, the latter mistakenly believes he's in a thriller movie, and that Mary is a psycho who will do horrible things to him if she catches him. In reality, Mary's just an overly zealous girl.

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