In 2011 Steven Jay Russell had his crimes featured on "I Almost Got Away with It" and in 2009 this movie was created and grossed a little over how much worldwide?
I Love You Phillip Morris I Love You Phillip Morris is a 2009 black comedy drama film based on the 1980s and '90s real-life story of con artist, impostor, and multiple prison escapee Steven Jay Russell, as played by Jim Carrey. While incarcerated, Russell falls in love with his fellow inmate, Phillip Morris (Ewan McGregor). After Morris is released from prison, Russell escapes from prison four times to be reunited with Morris. The film was adapted from "I Love You Phillip Morris: A True Story of Life, Love, and Prison Breaks" by Steve McVicker. The film is the directorial debut of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. It grossed a little over $20 million worldwide after its limited theatrical release.
Rosewater (film) Rosewater is a 2014 American political drama film written, directed and produced by Jon Stewart, based on the memoir "Then They Came for Me" by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy. It recounts Bahari's 2009 imprisonment by Iran, connected to an interview he participated in on "The Daily Show" that same year; Iranian authorities presented the interview as evidence that he was in communication with an American spy. Due to the content of the film, Stewart has been accused by Iran's state TV of being funded by Zionists and working with the CIA. The film was released in theaters on November 14, 2014.