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Plot: Robin Williams won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck nabbed one for Best Original Screenplay, but the feel-good hit Good Will Hunting triumphs because o...( read more read more... )

Matt Damon stars as Will Hunting, a closet math genius who ignores his gift in favor of nightly boozing and fighting with South Boston buddies (co-writer Ben Affleck among them). While working as a university janitor, he solves an impossible calculus problem scribbled on a hallway blackboard and reluctantly becomes the prodigy of an arrogant MIT professor (Stellan Skarsgård). Damon only avoids prison by agreeing to see psychiatrists, all of whom he mocks or psychologically destroys until he meets his match in the professor's former childhood friend, played by Williams. Both doctor and patient are haunted by the past, and as mutual respect develops, the healing process begins. The film's beauty lies not with grand climaxes, but with small, quiet moments. Scenes such as Affleck's clumsy pep talk to Damon while they drink beer after work, or any number of therapy session between Williams and Damon offer poignant looks at the awkward ways men show affection and feeling for one another. --Dave McCoy

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  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    May 14, 2008
    The conversation between Robin Williams and Matt Damon is really touching. Deeply human issues are fully explored. Robin Williams rightly won the best supporting acor oscar for his role. The transformation of Will Hunting from an efficient robotic genius to a genuine person with human feelings has been captured with a brilliant screenplay.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 7, 2008
    you can see why it won an Oscar.
    Excellent Script and the Peformances to match from both Williams and Damon.
    Very Cool.
    Must See
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    May 6, 2008
    Robin Williams plays his best role to date. What more can you say? The screenplay is unparalleled (winning the Oscar obviously), the acting impeccable (Matt Damon is mind-blowing as brilliant troubled prodigy Will), and the movie both enchantingly smart and fun yet emphatic...
    Brilliant.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    May 6, 2008
    What a fantastic film about the mind. I'm so glad that i watched this movie it is very uplifting and enlightening story of a young man named Will Hunting. Will is a janitor at a college in Boston. When he answers a mathimatical question that has taken mathimaticl professors more then two years to answer he is given and opportunity to go far. all he has to do stay out of trouble from the law, leave his friends behind and face the demons of his past. With the help of Sean Migure a phsyciatrst wiht his own problems together they help each other plod forward in lfe. A uplifting story, reccommend that all shopuld watch.
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    April 30, 2008
    Really well written movie. Good cast...especially WIlliams. I always liked Ben Affleck...he just acts in bad movies! I really like Minnie Driver also. The story is different and well done. All around this is a good movie.

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  • TheSlowPenguin
    Best film of all time that I have ever seen!!!
    posted 257 days ago
  • iTasneem
    A pretty remarkable movie!, Its made me a fan of Matt Damon.
    posted 331 days ago
  • diveheadfirstintocon
    Id watch this just for the Southie accents. a great inspiring film.
    posted 437 days ago
  • VamIsaccson
    I loved the ending...it was perfect. Matt Damon portrayed the role perfectly, and it was also the first time I've seen Robin Williams in action. He is a great actor! I would reccomend this to anyone.
    posted 499 days ago
  • fishy127
    I love this movie so much! Despite what SOME people seem to think, it is most definately NOT a comedy. Please actually watch a movie before you try and review it, do not assume that just because Robin Williams is in it, it will be a comedy! Far from it. It is a subtle feel good movie.. it makes my cry every time!
    posted 502 days ago
  • alhamo83
    "Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight, gonna grab some afternoon delight" - A great song to end a great movie.
    posted 544 days ago

Details

  • Rated: (R)
  • Directed by: Gus Van Sant
  • Genres: Drama
  • Released: December 5, 1997
  • DVD Released: December 8, 1998

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