Sundance 2009: I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS, Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere

Damon Wise in the London Times:
"Written by the team responsible for the similarly dark Bad Santa and based on a true story, I Love You Phillip Morris is an extraordinary film that serves as a reminder of just how good [Jim] Carrey [above, with Ewan McGregor] can be when he’s not tied into a generic Hollywood crowd-pleaser. His comic timing remains as exquisite as ever, but this is not a loveable rubber-faced rogue. One could argue that, like The Truman Show, this is another film about a lost naif, but when it plays its final hand, I Love You Phillip Morris is really much, much stranger."
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Steven Zeitchik in The Hollywood Reporter:
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by Deborah Arthur | January 22, 2009   
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Sundance 2009: Park City at Midnight

Sundance 2009: Park City at Midnight

Dead Snow by Tommy Wirkola
 
Black Dynamite / U.S. (Director: Scott Sanders; screenwriters: Michael Jai White, Scott Sanders, Byron Minns)
When "The Man" murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to take him on. Cast: Michael Jai White, Tommy Davidson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Byron Minns, James McManus. World premiere
The Carter / U.S. (Director: Adam Bhala Lough)
An in-depth, intimate look at Dwayne "Lil Wayne" Carter Jr., proclaimed by many as the "greatest rapper alive." Cast: Lil Wayne, Brian Williams, Cortez Bryant. World premiere
Død Snø (Dead Snow) / Norway (Director: Tommy Wirkola; screenwriters: Tommy Wirkola, Stig Frode Henriksen)
A [...]

by Deborah Arthur | December 5, 2008   
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