I Love You Phillip Morris

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    I Love You Phillip Morris
    2010

    Synopsis

    Steven Russell leads a seemingly average life – an organ player in the local church, happily married to Debbie, 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. 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.

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    Cast

    • Jim CarreySteven Russell
    • Ewan McGregorPhillip Morris
    • Leslie MannDebbie
    • Rodrigo SantoroJimmy
    • Brennan BrownLarry Bukheim
    • Nicholas AlexanderSteven's Brother
    • Tony BentleyRacist Client
    • Michael BeasleyPrison Guard
    • Sean BoydPoliceman
    • Marcus Lyle BrownYoung Doctor

    Recommendations

    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      It's the beaming movie-star intensity of the complicated comic Carrey in the role of the dominant lover and Obi-Wan Kenobi McGregor as the gentle beloved that makes this unfettered, stranger-than-fiction picture pop.
    • 80

      NPR

      "Liar Liar" meets Obi-Wan? Who'da thunk even fearless star power could make these two work as a romantic pair? But both stars prove to be enormous fun in a gay love story played straight in a thoroughly crooked context.
    • 80

      Salon

      Carrey provides one of his most whacked-out and enjoyable performances.
    • 80

      Empire

      One of the funniest films of the year, this is a wonderful mix of old-school Carrey outrageousness with a genuinely touching - and very modern - love story.
    • 75

      Movieline

      This is a love story in which one of the partners repeatedly does some really bad stuff, and while it's easy enough to admire him for his ability to get away with it all, it's harder to square the way he so cheerfully dupes innocent people, including his beloved.
    • 75

      New York Post

      It's a welcome alternative to the homogenized Hollywood releases that proliferate during the holiday season.
    • 60

      The New Yorker

      At best, I Love You Phillip Morris may be hailed as a necessary step in Hollywood's fearful crawl toward sexual evenhandedness; the film upholds the constitutional right of every gay man to be as much of a liar, a crook, and a creep as the rest of us. Makes you proud.
    • 58

      Christian Science Monitor

      The movie, at its best, is compellingly odd, which is also the most accurate description of Carrey's performance.

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