Texas Monthly: It’s Here. It’s Queer. (Jim Carrey movie)

[thanks_imjustlurking]

Whatever the crowds thought they were getting into at the January 2009 Sundance Film Festival premiere of I Love You Phillip Morris, it probably wasn’t this: a scene, less than five minutes into the picture, in which Jim Carrey engages in very sweaty, very aggressive, very loud intercourse with another man. (“Oh, did I forget to mention I’m gay?” his character, an avuncular con man named Steven Russell, guilelessly announces in voice-over.) I was at that Sundance screening, and you could feel the tension settle into the auditorium. It wasn’t just the graphic sex that made people so uncomfortable either. It was the way co-writers and co-directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (who wrote Bad Santa together) glided from mockery to tenderness and the way Carrey’s performance was at once wildly antic and sweetly restrained—as if The Mask and Brokeback Mountain had somehow been mashed together by a malfunctioning ...

http://www.texasmonthly.com/preview/2010-12-01/hollywoodtx
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Based on the nonfiction book of the same title. Currently in limited release. Trailers and reviews Google-able.

Oops - *not* Goggle-able. Or maybe it is - who knows.....!

[jonnyblitz]

1. I saw it awhile back. It was released in Europe and somebody

put the torrent up on a torrent site. I didn't really care for it but i am picky with gay themed movies. I think most gay themed movies made in the U.S. are lame and play up the stereotypes for the amusement of straight audiences. I prefer foreign movies that are gay themed they show all types, the stereotypical and not so stereotypical.

[thanks_imjustlurking]

2. I'm thinking you are probably absolutely right about that.

Still, I found the trailers very interesting and sweet. Thanks for the info about the torrents.