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It is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE

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It is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE (2007)

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Reviews Counted:10

Fresh:8

Rotten:2

Average Rating:6.1/10

Runtime: 74 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Just when you thought it was safe to come back to Sundance, Crispin Hellion Glover returns with the second installment of a trilogy that began at Sundance 2005 with What Is It? Glover's latest film... Just when you thought it was safe to come back to Sundance, Crispin Hellion Glover returns with the second installment of a trilogy that began at Sundance 2005 with What Is It? Glover's latest film is another mind-bending foray into unexplored cinematic territory that will challenge expectations and defy conventions. The screenwriter, Steven C. Stewart, is also the star (Stewart had cerebral palsy and passed away shortly after filming).

The film begins in a nursing home with our "hero" lying helpless on the floor. While he is being carried back to his bed, his world shifts to a place where his charm is recognized and the ladies swoon, enabling some torrid sexual conquests. But years of frustration at being an outcast have planted a dark and evil seed. Soon his actions take a morbid turn.

Glover uses his visionary cinematic skills to bring to life the graphically explicit psychosexual fantasy world of a man shunned by women and society but who lusts after intimacy, acceptance, and long hair. The beauty of his direction is his ability to create an atmosphere that is strange and unsettling, yet sensual and erotic. Through Stewart's caustic fantasy life, Glover subverts the conventional devices of a suspense film and creates an audacious statement on the conundrum of sexual politics from an outsider's perspective.
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Starring: Steven C. Stewart, Margit Carstensen, Carrie Szlasa

Starring: Steven C. Stewart, Margit Carstensen, Carrie Szlasa

Director: Crispin Hellion Glover, David Brothers

Director: Crispin Hellion Glover, David Brothers
Screenwriter: Steven C. Stewart
Producer: Crispin Hellion Glover
Studio: Volcanic

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Any response to this film is aggressively subjective...Did I enjoy the film? I did not.

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12/05/07
Tim Brayton
Tim Brayton
Antagony & Ecstasy

It's one of the most queasy-making and confrontational films of the year, in which a deliberately artless presentation...takes the sting out of some extremely unruly content.

Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
11/29/07
Michael Phillips
Michael Phillips
Chicago Tribune

It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. feels genuinely sui generis; Glover has said it’s the best film of his career. Whatever, McFly. But he’s not far off.

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11/22/07
Ben Kenigsberg
Ben Kenigsberg
Time Out New York

Entirely set-bound and featuring dramatic lighting, deep shadows and such archaic effects as rear projection, the film has the look and feel of an old Hollywood movie -- but there's never been a film quite like this one.

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11/21/07
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

IT IS FINE! allows an outsider’s plight to define the mood and give significance to the art. Yet it’s hard to take that endeavor seriously when the movie operates under the guise of exploitation.

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11/21/07
Eric Kohn
Eric Kohn
New York Press

Crispin Hellion Glover’s planned trilogy of blatant weirdness continues with a second installment, It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.

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11/21/07
Laura Kern
Laura Kern
New York Times
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The movie is daring, original and aimed at sophisticated moviegoers.

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11/16/07
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post

To say the film is weird would be cliché, it's way beyond that the film drew laughs and gasps from the audience. The odd thing about it all -- it works.

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02/10/07
Chris Gore
Chris Gore
Film Threat

Imagine snuff porn as produced by the Special Olympics. That is the vision of Crispin Glover.

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02/02/07
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

The statement Stewart makes in his script-- that handicapped people can not only be as sensitive as everyone else, but just as horrible -- is made eloquent, if bizarre, via Glover and Brothers' otherworldy vision.

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02/02/07
John Anderson
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