No "Penal" Jokes Allowed

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So Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor are going to romance each other in a prison story, eh? From Variety:

"Ewan McGregor will play the romantic lead opposite Jim Carrey in "I Love You Phillip Morris," a dark comedy that marks the directing debut of "Bad Santa" scribes Glenn Ficarra and John Requa.... Carrey signed earlier in the fall to star in the fact-based tale as Steven Russell, a married father whose conman ways introduced him to the Texas prison system. There, he fell in love with cellmate Phillip Morris.

His love for Morris motivated his escape from 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."

Note that I used a picture of Jim Carrey as Joel in Eternal Sunshine there at the top. Let's hope that it's a Jim Carrey in that vein, because I'm quite capable of liking Jim Carrey, if he's in that vein... but then there's the Jim Carrey who talks with his ass, and... not too fond of that Carrey, to be honest.

And if they turn this into I Now Convict You, Chuck and Larry... shudder... Ewan wouldn't sign on for something that base, though, right? We can trust, have faith, with Ewan's involvement... right?
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