It Is Fine. Everything Is Fine! (2007)

82% of critics liked it
(11 reviews)
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Director Crispin Glover teams with screenwriter Steven C. Stewart for this surreal semi-autobiographical feature detailing cerebral palsy sufferer Stewart's remarkable life and many love affairs. A semi-sequel to Glover's shocking directorial debut, What Is It? (2005), It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine… More Director Crispin Glover teams with screenwriter Steven C. Stewart for this surreal semi-autobiographical feature detailing cerebral palsy sufferer Stewart's remarkable life and many love affairs. A semi-sequel to Glover's shocking directorial debut, What Is It? (2005), It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine opens with Stewart lying helplessly on the hospital floor. As he is being transported back to his bed, Stewart embarks on an inward journey in which his suave charm proves irresistible to the ladies. Though his imaginary sexual conquests allow Stewart a welcome opportunity to live out his many erotic fantasies, the unshakable frustration of being an eternal outcast soon causes his actions to take an unexpectedly dark turn. It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine made its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 14 min.
Directed By: David Brothers, Crispin Glover
Written By: Steven C. Stewart
Genres: Drama, Art House & International, Special Interest

In Theaters: Nov 21, 2007 Wide
Studio: Volcanic Eruptions

Critic Reviews

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
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.
Laura Kern, New York Times
Crispin Hellion Glover's planned trilogy of blatant weirdness continues with a second installment, It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine.
V.A. Musetto, New York Post
The movie is daring, original and aimed at sophisticated moviegoers.
John Anderson, Variety
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.
Tim Brayton, Antagony & Ecstasy
Any response to this film is aggressively subjective...Did I enjoy the film? I did not.
Ben Kenigsberg, Time Out New York
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.
Ken Fox, TV Guide's Movie Guide
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.
Eric Kohn, New York Press
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.
Chris Gore, Film Threat
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.
Eric D. Snider, EricDSnider.com
Imagine snuff porn as produced by the Special Olympics. That is the vision of Crispin Glover.

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Curtis L

Better when you hear the explanation of what the heck you just saw, but points off for creepy graphic sex scenes between many girls and a cerebral palsy man. Yikes.