Hey, howzabout ending your work week with a nice serving of hot sex that doesn’t happen to be heterosexual?
The gay farce “I Love You Phillip Morris” hasn’t made it to our shores yet, though international audiences have already treated themselves to Glenn Ficarra and John Requa’s true story about a con man who has a sexual reawakening in prison when he falls for his cellmate, setting up a series of ill-advised prison breaks. As such, scenes are making their way online, especially this explicit little segment of Jim Carrey’s sexual conquests in the film.
No nudity, although the language and, um, thrusting is certainly nsfw, but it’s Friday – pump the volume up! We especially like the fact that the humor in these clips is not the standard Hollywood mode of the homosexual as the “other” but rather how there are few differences in gay and hetero lust. Carrey seems like a guy that’s been afraid to take risks in his career for the most part, especially post-“Eternal Sunshine,” so it’s both surprising and exhilarating to see him in this context.
The saga of “I Love You Phillip Morris” seems like an affair that will never end. Debuting at Sundance in early 2009, it took four months before no-name distributor Consolidated Pictures Group purchased the rights. As expected, the planned 2010 Valentine’s Day release never happened, and the rights threatened to bounce to Newmarket Pictures. CPG balked at losing the rights, and all parties involved are in court while the company claims a late 2010 release is planned. If we’re thinking realistically, we imagine Fox will end up exercising the home video rights to “Morris” before it hits theaters in America.
We’ll guess the inexperienced marketing team at CPG has been long trying to both manage and budget an ad campaign for a film most mainstream filmgoers will reject on account of the frank sexuality on display. But it can’t just be them, as “Morris” sat without a distributor for too long considering it’s a comedy starring our most bankable comedic performer. People, we’re fourteen years removed from “The Birdcage,” an R-rated remake of a French film that had one of the world’s biggest comedians prancing around as the gayest gay that ever gayed and it brought in $124 million domestically. This kerfuffle is partly CPG’s fault, but there’s something troubling about the moviegoing world’s sudden bullshit squeamishness about homosexuality.