There's a scene where Russell's wife (or ex-wife?) asks if the "gay thing" goes hand-in-hand with the whole stealing thing, and she seems genuinely clueless about it. Do these two seemingly disparate things have anything to do with each other? The guy she's talking to gives her an understandable "WTF?" look in response, but you could just about replace that woman with me. Except I'd be asking how the typical pratfalling, facial-gymnastics-performing, goofy mugging of Jim Carrey fits together with what, by all accounts, is actually quite a sincere (if outlandish) true story? Naturally you'd expect there to be comedic moments, but with a few slight edits, those might be scenes out of Carrey's upcoming Yes Man or any of a dozen of his past movies.

Do you expect to love Phillip Morris come February 2009? Or does it belong in the pokey?