{"id":3792,"date":"2011-01-07T07:40:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3792"},"modified":"2011-01-07T07:40:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T21:40:33","slug":"5-second-review-i-love-you-phillip-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=3792","title":{"rendered":"5 Second Review: I Love You Phillip Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I Love You Phillip Morris<\/em> is the remarkable true story of a gay con artist Steven Russell who commits a massive amount of credit card fraud, gets sent to prison, finds love with an inmate and then sets about becoming a lawyer so that he can secure an early release for his newfound lover.<\/p>\n<p>The story is told as a black comedy and was penned by the John Requa, who&#8217;s previous work includes <em>Bad Santa<\/em>.\u00a0 The material definitely suits his style.\u00a0 A film starring rubberfaced Jim Carey acting as a campy prison convict gives you plenty of material to work with.<\/p>\n<p>Carey is excellent as Steven Russell.\u00a0 By the end of the film, you begin to wonder how this tale could possibly be true.\u00a0 It&#8217;s never really explored how this small town guy with a sheltered religious upbringing managed to become so resourceful at committing such a sophisticated level of commercial and courtroom fraud.\u00a0 Perhaps no one has ever been able to interview him to find out?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, this is an entertaining bio pic and Carey delivers some of his best work here since <em>Man on the Moon<\/em> where his performance as Andy Kaufman has familiar behavioural connections to Russell.\u00a0 Both are enigmatic outsiders who gains notoriety by deceiving people on a massive scale.\u00a0 Only difference is that Kaufman parlayed that into a successful acting career and Russell ended up as a white collar criminal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilypm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3793\" title=\"ilypm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilypm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilypm.jpg 630w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ilypm-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Love You Phillip Morris is the remarkable true story of a gay con artist Steven Russell who commits a massive amount of credit card fraud, gets sent to prison, finds love with an inmate and then sets about becoming a lawyer so that he can secure an early release for his newfound lover. The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[309,726],"class_list":["post-3792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-films","tag-5-second-review","tag-i-love-you-phillip-morris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3795,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3792\/revisions\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}