I Love You Phillip Morris

I Love You Phillip Morris
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Directed by	John Requa Glenn Ficarra
Produced by	Andrew Lazar Far Shariat
Written by	John Requa Glenn Ficarra
Based on	I Love You Phillip Morris: A True Story of Life, Love, and Prison Breaks by Steve McVicker
Starring	Jim Carrey Ewan McGregor Rodrigo Santoro Antoni Corone Leslie Mann
Music by	Nick Urata
Cinematography	Xavier Pérez Grobet
Edited by	Thomas J. Nordberg
Production company	EuropaCorp Mad Chance Productions
Distributed by	LD Entertainment Roadside Attractions
Release date	January 18, 2009 (2009-01-18) (Sundance Film Festival) February 10, 2010 (2010-02-10) (France) December 3, 2010 (2010-12-03) (United States)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	United States France
Language	English
Budget	$13 million
Box office	$20.7 million

I Love You Phillip Morris is a 2009 black comedydrama film based on the 1980s and '90s 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). After Morris is released from prison, Russell escapes from prison four times to be reunited with Morris. The film was adapted from I Love You Phillip Morris: A True Story of Life, Love, and Prison Breaks by Steve McVicker. The film is the directorial debut of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. It grossed a little over $20 million worldwide after its limited theatrical release.

Steven Jay Russell is on his deathbed, recalling the events of his life that led him to this point. He spent his early adult years in Virginia Beach as a police officer. He plays the organ at church, has unenthusiastic sex with his wife, Debbie, and spends his off-hours searching for his biological mother, who had placed him for adoption as a child. Steven locates his biological mother, but she rejects him.

He then quits the police force and moves to Texas and works for Sysco, the family business.

After a car crash on the way to a homosexual tryst, Steven leaves his family and life behind, though he keeps in touch with his wife and young daughter, and explores the world as his true self – a gay man. He moves to Miami, where he finds a boyfriend, Jimmy, and they adopt a luxurious lifestyle. To keep themselves in the style to which they have become accustomed, Steven becomes a con man. Steven is pursued by the police, and, after jumping off a parking garage, is sent to prison, where he falls in love with inmate Phillip Morris.