No moment triggered by one Pawtucket pal's premature demise. G.f., hard-drinking Dad admiring that it "wasn't easyīein' Ozzie when you ain't got a Harriet," and a Just Say Wan drama ensues, with Tim begging university officials to reinstate his Tim's antics wind up endangering Jane's future instead. Funderberk (Timothy Crowe) - he'sĭetermined to get the prank-inclined new enrollee expelled. Positive effect on his grade point average. But he manages to charmīeauteous coed Jane (Amy Smart), whose Ivy League aspirations have a There, Tim finds his slacker ways at odds with the jacket-and-tieĬonformity of 1974's Cornwall Academy. Throws up his hands - and throws the son he semi-affectionately calls His buddies run afoul of the cops during one hazy joyride, the old man Mother mysteriously flew the coop some years earlier. Wheelchair-bound younger sib Jackie (Tommy Bone) have been raised soloīy a tough-loving dad (Alec Baldwin) in gritty Pawtucket since their Tim Dunphy (Shawn Hatosy) in bittersweet family history - he and That said, scenario does try to ground the saga of amiable protag But results have a genericįeel that's closer to "Porky's," "The ChickenĬhronicles" and other B-minus laff fests from the era itself than Growing up in working-class Rhode Island. Seriocomedy much potency amid a crowded back-to-school-time releaseĬorrente ("Federal Hill," "American Buffalo")Īnd the Farrellys based their collaborative script on shared experiences A few stray (and low) yuks aside, it'll rake a mightyīong hit indeed to lend the independently produced, Miramax-released Signature zaniness is missing from director Michael Corrente'sĪdaptation. They've remained on board as co-writers/producers, but the If pic feels like aĭusted-off trunk item, that's probably because it is: CurrentĬomedy kings Peter and Bobby Farrelly evidently conceived it (drawing onįormer's 1988 novel) well before hitting pay dirt with "DumbĪnd Dumber" and "There's Something About Mary." Which is to say it would have fared better in that era's drive-in Sweepstakes, "Outside Providence" plays like the real thing. (In Deauville Film Festival.)Ī disappointingly rote entry in the '70s teen nostalgia Reviewed at Variety Club Screening Room, Sanįrancisco, July 30, 1999. Langdon assistant director, Alan Castelli casting, Sheila Jaffe, Supervisor, Peter Afterman production designer, Chad Detwiller artĭirector, Tom Walden set decorator, Karen Weber costume designer,Īnnie Dunn sound (Dolby), Peter Schneider associate producer, Libby Richard Crudo editor, Kate Sanford music, Sheldon Mirowitz music Screenplay, Peter Farrelly, Corrente,īobby Farrelly, based on the novel by Peter Farrelly. Producers, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Billy Heinzerling.ĭirected by Michael Corrente. Michael Corrente, Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, Randy Finch.
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