Steve had its world premiere in the Platform Prize section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in select cinemas in the United Kingdom and the United States on 19 September 2025, before its streaming debut on 3 October 2025 by Netflix.
At its core stands the character of Steve, the head teacher, as he faces a long, emotionally charged day filled with professional and psychological challenges within a tense and complex environment.
A talented cook, Steve found peace in preparing meals that brought people together. Whether cooking for his family or enjoying quiet evenings with his favorite comfort shows on MeTV, Steve’s warmth and sense of humor brightened the lives of all who knew him.
Cillian Murphy has played a physicist, a supervillain, and a gangster: Now he’s playing Steve. Based on Max Porter’s bestselling novel Shy, Steve is the story of a head teacher facing the impending closure of the reform school where he works, told in parallel with the struggle of one of his students (Jay Lycurgo).
“Steve” is about a chaotic 24 hours in the life of its title character, who is the head of a boarding school for troubled young men called Stanton Wood. Steve clearly loves the boys there, the ones that society has discarded.
Steve. A reimagining of Max Porter's bestseller Shy, starring Academy Award® winner Cillian Murphy and directed by Tim Mielants. In select theaters from September 19 and on Netflix October 3.
Steve and his crew are second to none when it comes to complete auto repair. The always full parking lot, in season and out, is testimony that this guy runs a very successful business and still greets all his customers with a firm, old fashion hand shake.
After law school, I began my legal career as an Assistant Public Defender with the 20th Judicial Circuit Public Defender’s Office in Lee County, Florida. After leaving my employment position with the State of Florida in 2002, I joined a private criminal defense law firm in Fort Myers, Florida.
At Stanton Wood, it’s nothing but. Operated by the title character, Steve — into whom lead actor Cillian Murphy channels all sorts of irreconcilable conflict — this is the reform school of last...
