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  1. I Love You Phillip Morris is a 2009 black comedy film [2] based on a 1980s and 1990s 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).

  2. Jul 5, 2022 · Yes, ‘I Love You Phillip Morris’ is based on a true story. Some of the events in the film are so bizarre that they defy belief. Thus, the movie itself reiterates with a pre-title memo that reads: “This really happened… it really did.”

  3. Steven Jay Russell (born December 31, 1957) is an American con artist, known for escaping from prison multiple times. I Love You Phillip Morris, a film about his life and crimes, was produced in 2009.

  4. An $800,000 con, four prison breaks, and a wild love affair — the bizarre real-life story that inspired Jim Carrey's new comedy 'I Love You Phillip Morris'.

  5. Jan 18, 2009 · “I Love You Phillip Morris” happens to be based on fact, the true-life tale of a onetime married police officer turned gay Texan con man, Steven Russell, who had a penchant for breaking out of...

  6. Dec 8, 2010 · That "I Love You, Phillip Morris" is based on a true story is relevant only because it is too preposterous to be fiction. Russell is a con man, and his lifelong con is selling himself to himself. That process begins when he discovers he isn't who he thought he was.

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  8. Feb 20, 2024 · The title, I Love You Phillip Morris, sounds more like a romance than a film about an ex-cop who comes out of the closet and becomes a conman, but this plot is actually based on a true...

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