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As noted earlier today in our Movie Action post, Crispin Glover will be at the Music Box Theatre tonight and tomorrow to present his two directorial efforts. It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. (2007) screens tonight, while What Is It? (2005) screens tomorrow; both events begin at 7:30 PM. Virtually every piece of writing on these films mentions that most of the players in What Is It? had Down Syndrome and that the writer and star of It Is Fine!, Steven C. Stewart, had such severe cerebral palsy that his speech was often unintelligible. Yet Glover offsets the provocative nature of both works through the obvious care he took in making them. Indeed, when I spoke with him the other day, I was struck most by his sensitivity and his outspoken concern for marginalized individuals.