I Love You Philip Morris (2010)

A policeman (Jim Carrey) leads a double life. A church going Christian and married man with a wife and child and his other closeted life as a gay man. After an auto accident that almost kills him, he leaves his wife (Leslie Mann, THIS IS 40) to live openly as a gay man. He supports his luxurious Miami Beach lifestyle by fraud as a con man. Caught and sent to prison, he meets the love of his life (Ewan McGregor) and that's when the craziness really starts. The old adage of truth is stranger than fiction applies here for incredibly, this is a true story. Adapted from the book I LOVE YOU PHILIP MORRIS: A TRUE STORY OF LIFE, LOVE AND PRISON BREAKS, the film is by turns funny, tragic and always audacious with Carrey in a career best performance. The film did the film festival circuit in 2009 but barely got a theatrical release in late 2010. It's easy to see why the distributor hedged its bets. Unlike the unrequited "tasteful" romanticism of BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN where audiences could swoon between bites of their popcorn, I LOVE YOU PHILIP MORRIS's outright sexually explicit depiction of gay sex, though much apparently has been excised from the final product, is both jocular and unsettling. A film that should have gotten more attention though its reviews were very good. Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (CRAZY STUPID LOVE). With Rodrigo Santoro and Annie Golden.