The Farrellys, sharing script credit with director Michael Corrente, skirt many of the expected clichés, but the story they deliver is as thin as rolling paper. Fussy teachers and preppy antagonists are introduced, then dropped. The requisite rich girlfriend (Amy Smart) never amounts to much. Still, Hatosy shines: he's swan-necked, snaggle-toothed, and enormously likable, and his exchanges with the testy Baldwin are wonderful. So is a gay-baiting scene among Baldwin's poker buddies that takes a rich and surprising turn. But Corrente, helming his third unexceptional feature, marks way too much time with pointless montages set to a wall-to-wall soundtrack of 1970s crotch rock. Although it shares certain plot points with Rushmore, Outside Providence is a good deal less.