I Love You Phillip Morris

[Brian in Mesa]

I Love You Phillip Morris
Source: Variety
December 18, 2007

Variety reports that Ewan McGregor will play the romantic lead opposite Jim Carrey in I Love You Phillip Morris, a dark comedy that marks the directing debut of Bad Santa screenwriters Glenn Ficarra and John Requa.

Carrey stars in the fact-based tale as Steven Russell, a married father whose conman ways introduced him to the Texas prison system. There, he fell in love with cellmate Phillip Morris.

Spoiler

His love for Morris motivated his escape from prisons four times, once by using a green pen and bucket of water to change his prison outfit into what appeared to be surgical scrubs, another time by faking his death from AIDS and signing his own death certificate. Morris eventually got out, but Russell's escapades got him a 144-year sentence.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

I Love You Phillip Morris

Release Date: December 3, 2010 (NY, LA, SF)
Studio: Roadside Attractions
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Screenwriter: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R (for sexual content including strong dialogue, and language)
Website: N/A

Starring: Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro

Plot Summary: "I Love You Phillip Morris" is the improbable but true story of a spectacularly charismatic conman's journey from small-town businessman to flamboyant white-collar criminal, who repeatedly finds himself in trouble with the law and on the lam, brilliantly escaping from the Texas prison system on four separate occasions - all in the name of love.

Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) leads a seemingly average life - an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie (Leslie Mann), and a member of the local police force. That is until he has a severe car accident that leads him to the ultimate epiphany: he's gay and he's going to live life to the fullest - even if he has to break the law to do it. Taking on an extravagant lifestyle, Steven turns to cons and fraud to make ends meet and is eventually sent to the State Penitentiary where he meets the love of his life, a sensitive, soft-spoken man named Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). His devotion to freeing Phillip from jail and building the perfect life together prompts him to attempt (and often succeed at) one impossible con after another. Told with an uncanny sense of humor and a lot of heart, "I Love You Phillip Morris" is an oddball tale of what can happen when the legal system, a daredevil spirit and undying love collide.

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[RON_IN_OC]

I'm not sure about this...When I read reviews, the movie and story actually sounds sad, but when I see commercials it's made out to be a very funny comedy.

 

[Louis]

The preview I've seen makes it look like a comedy. Looks interesting enough that I'll rent it when it's available.

 

[Mulli]

What is wrong with Jim Carrey's arm in that poster? The one holding the leash looks tiny.

 

[Louis]

Holy photoshop Batman!

They look airbrushed and thinned out.

 

[Renz]

I'm not sure about this...When I read reviews, the movie and story actually sounds sad, but when I see commercials it's made out to be a very funny comedy.

Yeah, the poster seems to want the moviegoer to expect a happy ending when we know that isn't the case since Steven Russell is still in prison.

The film also seems to want to paint Russell as some kind of folk hero when in fact he's a thief who pretty much threw his life away by turning to a life of crime.

 

[Mulli]

Yeah, the poster seems to want the moviegoer to expect a happy ending when we know that isn't the case since Steven Russell is still in prison.

The film also seems to want to paint Russell as some kind of folk hero when in fact he's a thief who pretty much threw his life away by turning to a life of crime.

Watch out if the guy next to you starts shaking his feet.

Unless that is what you are into.