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I Love You Phillip Morris is a 2009 black comedy film based on a 1980s and 1990s real-life story of con artist, impostor and multiple prison escapee Steven Jay Russell, as played by Jim Carrey. While incarcerated, Russell falls in love with his fellow inmate, Phillip Morris ( Ewan McGregor ).
Jan 7, 2011 · Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor star as a gay couple who pull off a series of cons and escapes from prison. Based on a true story, the film is a biography, comedy, crime and romance genre with 6.6/10 IMDb rating and 65 Metascore.
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- Biography, Comedy, Crime
- Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
- 2011-01-07
In prison, Steven meets Phillip (Ewan McGregor), a mild-mannered inmate who becomes the love of his life. Determined to build a beautiful life with his lover, Steven embarks on another crime...
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- Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
- R
- Romance, Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ+
I Love You Phillip Morris. After a terrible car accident, Steven Russell, a cop and family man, vows to be true to himself. He comes out of the closet, moves to Florida, and finances a luxurious lifestyle with bad checks and credit cards.
On his second go-round behind bars, scam artist Steven Russell (Carrey) commits the ultimate con in order to break out and win back the heart of Phillip Morris (McGregor), with whom he fell in love during his first prison sentence.
Dec 3, 2010 · 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 ...
Dec 3, 2010 · 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.
