Outside Providence

Outside Providence (1999) is a coming-of-age comedy you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Michael Corrente. Shawn Hatosy plays Tim Dunphy, a working-class kid from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, who drifts through the early '70s getting high with his friend Drugs Delaney.

One brush with the law changes everything. Tim's blue-collar father — Alec Baldwin, deadpan and exasperated — ships him off to a Connecticut prep school where he fits in nowhere. Then he meets Jane (Amy Smart), and the slacker starts to care. Peter Farrelly wrote the script from his own novel, and the humor is exactly what you'd expect: crude around the edges, soft underneath, with a 1970s rock soundtrack carrying it along. A small, funny film for anyone who likes their growing-up stories messy. Stream Outside Providence online on iFILM.