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Good Will Hunting
1997 film by Gus Van Sant
Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. It stars Robin Williams, Damon, Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård and Minnie Driver. The film tells the story of janitor Will Hunting, whose mathematical genius is discovered by a professor at MIT.
The film received acclaim from critics and grossed over $225 million during its theatrical run against a $10 million budget. At the 70th Academy Awards, it received nominations in nine categories, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won in two: Best Supporting Actor for Williams and Best Original Screenplay for Affleck and Damon. In 2014, it was ranked at number 53 in The Hollywood Reporter's "100 Favorite Films" list.[4]
Plot
[edit]Twenty-year-old Will Hunting of South Boston is a self-taught math genius who was recently paroled after completing a prison term. He works as a janitor at MIT, and spends his free time drinking with his friends Chuckie, Billy and Morgan.
When Professor Gerald Lambeau posts a difficult combinatorial mathematics problem on a blackboard as a challenge for his graduate students, Will solves the problem anonymously, stunning both the students and Lambeau. A
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What were you up to during your final year of college? If you were like me, you were waking up to existential crises, applying for countless jobs, and wondering why you didn’t major in finance. If you were like Matt Damon, you were writing a script that would send your career hurtling to stardom — and garner you an Academy Award for screenwriting. Exactly two decades ago, the world learned who Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were, thanks to a little movie called Good Will Hunting.
By now, the story of genius janitor Will Hunting (Matt Damon) is the stuff of cinema legend. But the movie's creation is a lesser-known, and equally extraordinary, story. When Damon began writing Good Will Hunting, he was in his fifth year at Harvard University, having delayed his graduation a year to star in Geronimo: An American Legend.
“I had a few electives left. There was this playwriting class and the culmination of it was to write a one-act play, and I just started writing a movie. So I handed the professor at the end of the semester a 40-some-odd-page document, and said, ‘Look, I might have failed your class, but it is the first act of something longer,” Damon said in an oral history in Boston Magazine. As it turns out, Damon’s professor, Anthony