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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.

How was your day? Greetings again from the darkness. You know those days when it feels like you are being pulled in all directions, and nothing seems to go right? Welcome to 24 hours in the life of Steve, the headteacher at Stanton Wood, a reform boarding college for troubled/challenging young men. This is one of those days that feels like a week.

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).

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The film follows a pivotal day in the life of headteacher Steve and his students at a last-chance reform school amidst a world that has forsaken them.

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.

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...