Published at: Dec. 18, 2007, 12:08 a.m. CST by quint
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS is the name of the flick, the directorial debut of BAD SANTA scribes Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. Luc Besson is producing.
Jim Carrey plays a married conman, a father, who gets caught and put into a Texas jail. There he meets Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor) and he falls in love. The dark comedy aspect is that his love prompts him to try escaping using his particular talented ingenuity. Of course, when he is unsuccessful his sentence grows, which prompts him to try escaping even more until his sentence goes over 100 years.
Ficarra and Requa wrote the script, an adaptation of a book by Steve McVicker, which makes me happy as I hold BAD SANTA as being one of the funniest damn movies to hit in the last 5 years. Of course, they had help from the Coen Bros and Terry Zwigoff, but still. Very much looking forward to this one. You?
