All About Steve Page #11

Synopsis: Mary Horowitz writes crossword puzzles for the Sacramento Herald. She's loquacious to a fault. When kids at a career day make fun of her for being single, she accepts a blind date with Steve, the cameraman for a CNN-like news network. Within minutes she decides he's the man for her. He's quickly put off by her constant verbiage and over-the-top advances; he makes an off-hand remark about going on the road with her, and splits. She's moonstruck, writes a sappy crossword puzzle, loses her job, and decides to follow him as the news team crisscrosses the Southwest; Steve's team eggs her on. Then she falls in a mine shaft, and she and Steve become a story; is it a love story?
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Director(s): Phil Traill
Production: 20th Century Fox
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
4.8
Metacritic:
17
Rotten Tomatoes:
7%
PG-13
Year:
2009
99 min
$33,806,061
Website
525 Views


- Bye.

Bye.

Mary?

Don't ever change- for anybody.

I'm Jewish-Catholic.

I'm pretty much set in stone.

[Chuckles]

- We love you!

- Welcome back, Mary!

[Shouting, Cheering]

Mary! Mary! Mary!

[Cheering, Shrieking]

Oh, my goodness!

[Male Reporter]

Mary, any statement at all? Anything?

[Crowd Chattering, Shouting]

- You're okay!

- [Crying, Shouting]

I missed you guys so much! Oh, God!

Mary Horowitz.

Angus. Let's finish this.

- [Vasquez] Hughes. Hartman Hughes.

- Move aside. Move aside.

[Laughs]

Hey! Get in here!

Ah. It's good to see you guys.

- Come here, Steve. Come on, buddy.

- No, no.

Good to see you. Okay, all right.

- Come on. Confessional.

- Let's do this.

Hartman Hughes,

you reminded us to believe in miracles.

What does it feel like to be a hero?

I'm not a hero.

I'm a humble guy who's lucky to be alive.

- [Muffled Scoff]

- And, uh, I think any hardworking...

patriotic American

would've jumped in that hole...

once he knew, uh, there was

a little girl down there...

- and a good-Iooking lady, single, huh?

- [Crowd Laughing]

[Hartman Laughs]

[Crowd Cheering]

[Mary Narrating] New York Times

crossword editor, Will Shortz, says...

"We have a natural compulsion

to fill empty spaces. "

I like to think he means notjust crosswords...

but the empty spaces inside of us...

that come from making your way

in a world that doesn't always embrace unique.

I tried to fill my empty spaces

with words and puzzles-and Steve.

We love you!

But that wasn't the answer.

Now I know.

On thejourney oflife...

just find someone as normal as you-

if not a whole bunch.

Oh. And here's a little bit of fresh

Mary Horowitz wisdom. [Chuckles]

If you love someone, set him free.

If you have to stalk him,

he probably wasn't yours in the first place.

[Chuckling]

[Woman]

#My face to the sky #

#Dreaming aboutjust how high

I could go #

#And if I'll know when I finally get there #

#And if I'll know when I finally get there #

# Taking off my glasses #

#Sun pokes through my lashes #

#Somehow I know #

# There's a time for every star to shine #

#Everybody got their something #

#Make you smile like an itty-bitty child #

#Everybody got their something #

#Everybody got their something #

#Hey, hey

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey #

#People keepin'score #

#Better hurry up and get yours #

#Somebody else got your spot #

#Before you even dropped #

#Seek and you shall find #

#Everything in my own sweet time #

#I'll take my chances

with what I believe is only mine #

#Busy holding on #

#So the roof don't fly #

#Keep you from moving on #

#So get it right

Turn the tide over #

#Like a love song #

#Like a butterfly #

#Believe if you hand it over #

# You'll come out all right #

# Yeah, yeah #

#Everybody got their something #

#Make you smile like an itty-bitty child #

#Everybody got their something #

- #Everybody got their something #

- # Yeah-ah #

# Yeah-ah-ah-ah #

#Hey, hey

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey #

- # Uh-huh #

- # Uh-huh, uh-huh #

#Illuminate the silly things #

#Shed some light on all that's wrong #

#Everybody need it sometime #

#Sometimes the only thing you got #

#Is what makes you feel like #

# You're somethin'else altogether #

# You have everything #

#Don't need another reason to be something #

#I've been on a ride #

#And caught up in the landslide #

#But I'm gonna spread my wings and fly #

#Fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, fly, yeah #

#Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, yeah #

- # Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh #

- # Yeah, yeah, yeah #

- # Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah #

- # Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh #

#Everybody got their something #

#Everybody got their something #

#Make you smile like an itty-bitty child #

- #Everybody got their something #

- # Yeah-ah #

- #Everybody got their something, yeah #

- # Yeah-ah #

# Yeah-ah

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey #

# Yeah-ah-ah-ah, hey #

# Uh-huh #

# There's a time for every star #

# There's a time for every star #

# There's a time for every star #

# There's a time for every star #

# There's a time for every star #

# There's a time for every star #

# There's a time for every star #

# There's a time for every star #

# There's a time for every star, yeah #

##[Fades Out]

[Dispatcher On Radio, Indistinct]

[Sighs]

[Screaming]

I'm the news!

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