Good Will Hunting is a 1997 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written (with help from Van Sant) by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who both star in the film.
The movie tells the story of Will Hunting, a prodigy hoodlum from South Boston who works as a janitor at MIT.
Good Will Hunting was a financial success, earned widespread critical praise and several awards, and launched Damon and Affleck into prominence.
Though Will Hunting (Matt Damon) ha...
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Good Will Hunting is a 1997 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written (with help from Van Sant) by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who both star in the film.
The movie tells the story of Will Hunting, a prodigy hoodlum from South Boston who works as a janitor at MIT.
Good Will Hunting was a financial success, earned widespread critical praise and several awards, and launched Damon and Affleck into prominence.
Though Will Hunting (Matt Damon) has a genius-level intellect, eidetic memory and a profound gift for mathematics, he works as a janitor at MIT and lives alone in a sparsely-furnished house in a rundown South Boston neighborhood. An abused foster child, he subconsciously blames himself for his unhappy upbringing and turns this self-loathing into a form of self-sabotage in both his professional and emotional lives.
In the first week of class, Will solves a difficult graduate-level problem taken from algebraic graph theory that Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgård), a...
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