I am head over heels for talented Ewan McGregor. I write is name all over my Pee-Chee folder. It started with the brilliant Trainspotting, directed by Danny Boyle. He has done first class, fantastic, quality work in a bunch of films I admired & enjoyed: Little Voice, Velvet Goldmine, The Pillow Book, Emma, Down With Love & my favorite McGregor performance in Moulin Rouge.
Add to that list- I Love You Phillip Morris, a nervy comedy that bills itself as an “improbable but true story.” This film was my favorite film of 2010, & the Husband concurs, he saw it twice
The fantastic tale of real life Steven Russell’s amazing adventures in fraud, deception, multiple impersonation & prison escape, that is gleefully blasé about bothering to make you believe that any of it is true. This bittersweet farce of a film is a charming, blunt, transgressive, zany, emotional, sentimental experience that features a couple of love smitten, brilliant sociopaths flying high. It is presented with sweet Oscar caliber performances from Jim Carrey & birthday boy Ewan McGregor. They play lovers & in one scene they slow dance & smooch to Johnny Mathis singing Chances Are, oblivious to the riot erupting outside their prison cell. I have never seen that on screen, not even in German prison porn. Rent this film & Ewan… have your people call my people.
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