![]() Once imprisoned, he meets the second love of his life, whom he'll stop at nothing to be with. (It debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 but fell into limbo when its first distributor ran short on funds for marketing Roadside Attractions acquired I Love You Phillip Morris in August. I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) Plot Showing all 5 items Jump to: Summaries (4) Synopsis (1) Summaries A cop turns con man once he comes out of the closet. The R-rated dark comedy I Love You Phillip Morris, which Ficarra and Requa also codirected, hits theaters Dec. Can you turn Phillip into a woman?”’ Instead, Ficarra and Requa wrote the script on their own and then managed to sign Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor to play Russell and Morris, respectively. ”We saw it as an epic love story,” says Requa, who co-wrote 2003’s Bad Santa, ”about two people who happen to be gay.” But when the duo pitched Russell’s story to production companies, Ficarra recalls, ”they said, ‘Great! Sounds like an amazing story. Costarring Ewan McGregor, I Love You Phillip Morris is an. ”I didn’t think that would fly in America.” But Russell’s misadventures, as recounted in Houston journalist Steve McVicker’s 2003 book, did in fact catch the interest of filmmakers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. Bad Santa co-screenwriters Glenn Ficara and John Requa re-team for this fact-based black comedy starring Jim Carrey as a Virginia police officer-turned-con man who makes the leap to white-collar criminal after being sent to prison and falling in love with his sensitive cellmate. Jim Carrey stars in the outrageously funny (Rolling Stone) true story of a spectacularly charismatic con man’s journey from small-town businessman to flamboyant white-collar criminal, who repeatedly finds himself in trouble with the law and on the lam all in the name of love. ”Well, I never thought about it becoming a movie because of the homosexuality part,” says Russell, who dove recklessly into a life of crime after falling for Phillip Morris, a sweet, slight man - bearing no relation to the tobacco company - whom he met in a Houston county jail. Russell’s story is so fantastical it’s as if somebody stamped Hollywood on his enormous forehead.
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