Here’s a three minute French trailer for the gay prison comedy, “I Love You Phillip Morris” starring Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. The movie is a true story of a married gay man (Carrey), whose exploits landed him in the Texas criminal justice system. He falls madly in love with his cellmate (McGregor), who is eventually set free, which lead Carey’s character to escape from Texas prisons four times to find him. We can’t say we’re excited to see this at all, but lesser discerning “critics” surely are. Remember when McGregor was a good actor and had a good career? We yearn for those days. Blame it on “Phantom Menace.” It’s also premiering at Sundance in February.
A commenter reminds us this one was written by the guys who wrote the deliciously off-color “Bad Santa” so maybe it has a shot, but Carrey hasn’t been tolerable in a long time.
I’m looking forward to it if for no other reason than I’m a huge “Bad Santa” fan. If this sucks, I guess we can credit the Coens with the greatness of that screenplay. Also, like you said, the true story is pretty amazing…they’d have to try pretty hard to make it less than entertaining.
Definately looks better than Yes Man.
Heh, that says a lot.