Overview:
Headstrong yet aimless, Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he secretly solves highly difficult graduate-level math problems, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau makes a deal to get leniency for him if he gets court-ordered therapy. Eventually, therapist Dr. Sean Maguire helps Will confront the demons that are holding him back.| Status: | Released (1997-12-05) |
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| Awards: | Won 2 Oscars. 25 wins & 61 nominations total |
| BoxOffice: | $138,433,435 |
| Screen: | Matt Damon, Ben Affleck |
| Productions: | Lawrence Bender Productions, Be Gentlemen Limited Partnership, A Band Apart, The Weinstein Company |
| Production Countries: | United States of America |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 1892: Matt Damon - Will Hunting
- 2157: Robin Williams - Sean Maguire
- 880: Ben Affleck - Chuckie Sullivan
- 1640: Stellan Skarsgård - Gerald Lambeau
- 6613: Minnie Driver - Skylar
- 1893: Casey Affleck - Morgan O'Mally
- 6614: Cole Hauser - Billy McBride
Crews
- 5216: Gus Van Sant - Director - Directing
- 2545: Lawrence Bender - Producer - Production
- 6624: Jonathan Gordon - Executive Producer - Production
- 6625: Su Armstrong - Executive Producer - Production
- 1307: Bob Weinstein - Executive Producer - Production
- 59839: Harvey Weinstein - Executive Producer - Production
- 6626: Jean-Yves Escoffier - Director of Photography - Camera
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Will Hunting, is a working class 20 year old mathematical genius, and yet chooses to shun a university education, preferring instead to be a janitor at Harvard university. At a social level he is headstrong, arrogant, likes getting into fights as well as ending up in police cells ....
Continue reading ->r96sk
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So great! <em>'Good Will Hunting'</em> is a film I had heard many a great thing about but had never actually seen it so didn't know anything about the plot - so much so that I genuinely thought it was about the good will of hunting or something... and certainly not about a charact ....
Continue reading ->CinemaSerf
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"Will" (Matt Damon) is a rudderless character who works as a caretaker. He's an attitudinal pain in the neck whom, aside from his best friend "Chuckie" (Ben Affleck), is pretty much shunned by everyone. "Professor Lambeau" (Stellan Skarsgård) spots some potential in this wayward lad, ....
Continue reading ->Filipe Manuel Neto
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**A very good film, but with some flaws and problems that deserve attention.** This film is about a boy from Boston, who comes from very poor backgrounds, but who has a gift for mathematics, easily solving theorems and advanced problems that leave Harvard professors unanswered. He ....
Continue reading ->BornKnight
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Psychological drama well in the beginning of Ben Aflleck and Matt Damon in their careers - they star (with Matt in the role of the protagonist) and wrote the script together. The director was Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy). The movie tells a story about a irish-descendant boy in ....
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