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Sundance Film Touted as Brokeback Mountain meets Catch Me If You Can, Set in Harris County Jail

Congrats to Houston writer Steve McVicker, whose nonfiction tale, I Love You, Phillip Morris, will premiere on the big screen at the Sundance Film Festival starring A-list stars Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor. Reported the Houston Chronicle:Signing Carrey to play Steven Russell, a family man and peace officer turned escape artist and one-man Texas crime spree, and getting McGregor to play his lockup lover, Phillip Morris, means the film will get plenty of attention at Sundance and should have good box-office prospects. Last week, the entertainment industry magazine Variety led its Sundance story with a photo from the film and a first-paragraph mention. Written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the screenwriters of the notoriously funny Bad Santa, starring Billy Bob Thornton, I Love You Phillip Morris is being pitched as Catch Me If You Can meets Brokeback Mountain...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on January 18, 2009 (boomark / email).