There’s plenty of sweetness at the core of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa’s bold, bleak little comedy I Love You Phillip Morris, in which Jim Carrey plays a gay con man who meets and falls in love with a sweet Southern boy played by Ewan McGregor — while the two are in prison, no less. Ficarra and Requa — the writers of Bad Santa , making their directorial debut — set an ambitious mark for themselves and don’t quite hit it. 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. Posing as a lawyer when you’ve never even been to college? Bilking the company you work for (and whose employ you entered under false pretenses) out of millions? Whatever happened to just sending flowers?
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REVIEW: Ewan McGregor and Jim Carrey Are Prisoners of Love in I Love You Phillip Morris
