I Love You, Phillip Morris (2010)

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• Release Date: 2010-04-30 - Limited Release
• Distributor(s): Freestyle Releasing
• Film Genre(s): Dark Comedy
• Country: United States
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Based on a book by Houston Chronicle crime reporter Steve McVicker, the fact-based film casts Carrey as Steven Russell, a married father whose exploits landed him in the Texas criminal justice system. Carrey will play a conman whose love for a cellmate leads him to make several prison escapes. He fell madly in love with his cellmate, who eventually was set free, which led Russell to escape from Texas prisons four times, once by using a green pen and bucket of water to change his prison outfit into what appeared to be surgical scrubs, another time by faking his death from AIDS and signing his own death certificate. Morris eventually got out, but Russell's escapades got him a 144-year sentence.

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