I Love You Phillip Morris — Mathew DeKinder (Suburban Journals)
Love can make you do crazy things. Maybe it will make you overspend on a gift, or stay up all night talking on the phone, or repeatedly break out of a Texas penitentiary.
Ok, so that last one really only applies to Steven Russell, a real-life con man who kept escaping from jail just to be with the man he loved.
This strange-but-true saga is the basis for the odd, but endearing movie, “I Love You Phillip Morris.”
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It does not appear to be real man-on-man sex, but there’s a great deal of the carefully photographed variety in “I Love You Phillip Morris,” which opens here today. Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor are the participants, and they certainly are acting as f they are having a very good time.
Away from the sex scenes, which are there because they’re part of the homosexual love story of Steven Russell (Carrey) and Phillip Morris (McGregor), which played out over many years as Russell, a consummate con man and amazing escape artist, stole millions of dollars to support an ever-more-glamorous life style.
The story is true,...
“I Love You Phillip Morris” – Lynn Venhaus (Belleville News-Democrat)
Based on the jaw-dropping true story of con artist Steven Russell, “I Love You Phillip Morris” is shocking in audacity. Who could make this guy up?
Jim Carrey is well-suited to play this part, with his over-the-top persona and zest for throwing himself into larger-than-life characters.
Once a police officer, husband and father, Russell decides in midlife that he no longer will hide who he is: a gay man. He moves to Miami’s South Beach and embraces a flamboyant lifestyle requiring lots of money. Thus begins a life of crime — a spectacular maze of scams and fake identities in order to consume conspicuously.
During one...
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