Steven Jay Russell (born September 14, 1957) is a US con artist known for escaping from prison multiple times. The film, I Love You Phillip Morris tells about his real-life story during 1980s and 1990s. A true story of life, love and prisons break directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa released in 2009.
PHILLIP MORRIS
Steven Russell (Jim Carrey) who is a law-abiding citizen, plays organ for the local church and volunteer as a deputy police officer in Virginia Beach with his wife Debbie (Leslie Mann) and a young daughter. Steven spends his off hours searching for his biological mother who gave him up as a child. Later, he tracks her down only to discover that she had remarried his biological father and given birth to three other children, each of whom his biological sibling but his mother rejects him without explanation.
After surviving from a car accident, Steven decides to live the rest of his life as his true self. He confesses to Debbie that he is gay which he had been hiding it from her. While he pursues a new life as an openly gay man, Steven realizes that "being gay is really expensive" which leading him to become a con man (insurance fraud, credit card fraud, passport fraud and so forth) to support his lifestyle. He is caught and sent to prison where he meets a sweet and soft-spoken inmate, Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor).
STEVEN JAY RUSSELL
The film tells the story of an inveterate conman and a gay man who just can't stop conning his way through life in a humorous manner. It may looks unbelievable when watching it but in 1993, Steven Russell disguised himself as a workman with a walkie-talkie, wearing a pair of women's black trousers stolen from the prison infirmary and walked out of the front gates. And three years later, he stockpiled green felt-tip pens from prison art classes, squeezing the ink from the cartridges into a sink of water to dye his overalls the color of surgical gowns and simply escaped the second time. The most daring escape ever was in 1998, over a ten months period, Steven tried to feign the symptoms of Aids to show that he is dying. Don't know how he do it but he claims to have an IQ of 163 which is over 140 than a genius.
In the end of the film explains that the real-life Phillip Morris was released from jail in 2006, but Steven is still currently serving a hundred forty-four years sentence (till July 12, 2140) on twenty-three hours lockup with only having one free hour a day for supervised showers and exercise.
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