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| ACTORS: | Shawn Hatosy, Alec Baldwin |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Michael Corrente |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 01 September, 1999 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Miramax Home Entertainment |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 717951004673 |
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Customer Reviews of Outside Providence
Not Your Typical Farrelly Brothers Movie, But Still Good! "Outside Providence" is a surprising movie. Since it came from the Farrelly brothers, I was expecting little more than the type of humor that was the staple of "Dumb and Dumber", "Kingpin", and "There's Something About Mary". What I got is a very well done if not predictable "coming of age" story.
The film is set in 1974 and features Shawn Hatosy as Tim Dunphy, a stoner sent away to a private school by his single father, played by Alec Baldwin (who calls his son "Dildo). I'm not a fan of Baldwin's but was mightily impressed by his performance.
At school, Tim finds a new circle of friends (not abandoning his old ones) and falls for fellow student Jane (Amy Smart). He also struggles against an uptight, mean-spirited dorm master. The comedy is politically incorrect and sometimes even gross, as you might expect from a Farrelly brothers film, but the coming of age story gives this movie some degree of substance that has been lacking in their previous films. Although the plot is almost painfully predictable, "Outside Providence" succeeds in being interesting and entertaining.
The VHS version of this film also features an alternate ending. After seeing it, I'm glad the brothers stayed with the first. It resolves all of the questions that come up in the movie in a much more satisfying way.
One reviewer described this movie as "charming". I think that says it right. Perhaps one of the reasons I think so is that I graduated from high school at about the same time as Tim and his friends and can really identify with the struggles they go through. I consider this to be an exceptional motion picture (which also includes an exceptional soundtrack featuring a great collection of songs from that era).
Farrelly Brothers Clean up Their Act....Kind of
Unlike the Farrelly Brothers earlier movies ("There's Something About Mary," "Kingpin", and "Dumb and Dumber") this movie is not as raunchy. Oh, trust me, it's raunchy as hell, but not AS raunchy. This is the story of a kid name Tim "Dildo" Dunphy (Shawn Hatosy) who after a run in with the law gets sent to a prep school by his father, Old Man Dunphy (Alec Baldwin). Tim gets in trouble almost the minute he gets there. It's just not his thing. He befriends a kid name Jizz (you'll find out how he got that name in the movie), and falls in love with a girl named Jane (Amy Smart). This movie may sound like any other old movie, but with it being set in the seventies, all the the drugs, the raunchy comedy and everything else. This movie is pretty good, you may forget it about after a week, but that doesn't mean it's bad.
I thought Alec Baldwin was not going to do a real good job in this movie at all, but he proved me, and probably some other people wrong. Baldwin was hilarious as Old Man Dunphy, and even touching as sometimes. Also stars George Wendt from "Cheers" fame.
FUNNIEST MOVIE EVER MADE!!!
If you want to see an extremely funny movie, then I highly recommend Outside Providence!! Many funny scenes, great cast, what else could you want?!!