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Summary: muddled mess
Review: This movie wants to be several different movies at the same time and ends up just being a confused, muddled mess. The lame jokes didn't make this a comedy and the cliches kept it from being a meaningful coming of age story.
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Summary: WHATS WRONG WITH THE MOVIE GOERS OF TODAY?
Review: This Movie was an instant Classic, I can't understand why the movie goers didn't get this to number one on the charts. This will be a cult movie!!!!!!! Fun and keeps you interested.
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Summary: A pleasant surprise!
Review: Though I was expecting more of the "Something About Mary" humor, I still found this movie enjoyable. With some adolescent humor mixed with a "Dead Poet's Society" hint (the setting, the prep school, etc.), I found myself engaged in the main characters. To me, "Outside Providence" was the equivalent of a good beach book -- don't expect too much depth, just sit back, ride the tides, and laugh a little while you're doing it.
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Summary: A Heatwarming Story of Change
Review: Tim Dunphey is on the road to nowhere. He spends his time skipping school, smoking dope with some heavy drug using friends and literally heading nowhere.He lives with his dad (Alec Baldwin) and a handicapped brother. Mom passed away years ago but Dad doesn't speak about the circumstances. Tim finally gets in enough trouble for Dad to decide he needs to get him out of the environment around Pawtucket, Rhode Island where they live. He send him to Cornwall Academy, a college prep school in Connecticut. At first, Tim goes on as he had in Rhode Island, doping, not cooperating, stacking up detentions and simply not taking his new school seriously. Tim meets a girl who changes all that. He falls in love with her head over heals and will do anything to please her -- including study. Tim's grades begin to improve dramatically and we see a gradual softening of this nice kid who thought he was a total tough ass. Shawn Hatosy does an excellent job of portrarying Tim. We see a shy, sensitive, lonely kids who falls in with a bunch of druggies. Yet, even though they are his main friends, we get a sense he's really not comfortable with them. He really cares for his younger brother and tries to spend as much time with him as possible. Getting in trouble turns out to be a good thing for Tim. At the end, we have a kid who seems to have his head on straight. He's headed for Junior College and realizes the druggie life is a trip to nowhere. Alec Baldwin does an excellent job portraying Tim's Dad. The struggles of raising him alone are apparent. Baldwin reveals to Tim a very touching and sad story of how his Mom committed suicide. The story is as tough for Baldwin to finally share as it is for Tim to hear. This is a wonderful story. It's isn't big budget, it doesn't have all kinds of exciting props and action. It deals with the reality of everyday life and growing up. It's a tribute to the writers that they chose this story after big event pictures like Something About Mary and Dumb and Dumber. Sadly because this wasn't a full adreneline film, it got short shift at the box office. Well worth seeing on video!
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Summary: Farrelly Brothers Clean up Their Act....Kind of
Review: 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.
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Summary: Farrelly Brothers Clean up Their Act....Kind of
Review: 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.
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Summary: Good movie!
Review: Very funny movie with Alec Baldwin doing a great job of playing a down-on-his-luck father of two boys. The movie is outrageous at times and features a great soundtrack of 70s music.
Buy it!
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Summary: FUNNIEST MOVIE EVER MADE!!!
Review: When I first rented this movie, I fell into a trap. After reading the box, I was expecting "Something about Mary". That put me in the wrong frame of mind, and I thought the movie sucked since I was waiting for the big laugh. Watching it a second time (years later), I like the movie. The acting is not over the top, very natural. Alec Baldwin seems a bit much at first, but his character develops. It is a good romantic comedy, on par with "The Sure Thing". This is not "Kingpin".
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Summary: Better the second time
Review: When I first rented this movie, I fell into a trap. After reading the box, I was expecting "Something about Mary". That put me in the wrong frame of mind, and I thought the movie sucked since I was waiting for the big laugh. Watching it a second time (years later), I like the movie. The acting is not over the top, very natural. Alec Baldwin seems a bit much at first, but his character develops. It is a good romantic comedy, on par with "The Sure Thing". This is not "Kingpin".
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Summary: Better the second time
Review: When I first rented this movie, I fell into a trap. After reading the box, I was expecting "Something about Mary". That put me in the wrong frame of mind, and I thought the movie sucked since I was waiting for the big laugh. Watching it a second time (years later), I like the movie. The acting is not over the top, very natural. Alec Baldwin seems a bit much at first, but his character develops. It is a good romantic comedy, on par with "The Sure Thing". This is not "Kingpin".
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