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Plot: Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics which is discovered, and a psychologist tries to help him with his gift and the rest of his life.
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MCT:November 21, 2008Robin Williams is at his best in this film. Moving picture about life and all things experienced in this thing called life.
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MCT:November 19, 2008Moving,powerful,heartwarming and funny. It has a great cast, all of them giving fantastic performances most notably Matt Damon,Robin Williams and Minnie Driver.
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MCT:November 17, 2008
its a beautiful movie, matt damon is so fresh and good in this movie, i didnt know he wrote the script along with ben affleck, i loved the movie, people just see it..wow.
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MCT:November 13, 2008
Good Will Hunting is the 1997 Drama that was Written and Starred Matt Damon and Ben Affleck with Funnyman Robin Williams costarring. Good Will Hunting is about a young man named Will Hunting (Matt Damon) who has a genius-level intellect and a profound gift for mathematics, he works as a janitor at MIT and lives alone in a run-down South Boston apartment. While working at MIT, Will notices a difficult graduate-level problem taken from algebraic graph theory & Will solves the question. When it is solved quickly and anonymously, Lambeau posts a much more difficult problem -- one that took him and his colleagues two years to prove. When Lambeau chances upon a mere janitor writing on the board, Lambeau chases him away. However, when Lambeau returns to the board, he is astounded to find the correct answer there. He then sets out to track Will down. After a run-in with the police, Professor Lambeau realizing Will has enormous potential, Lambeau goes to Will's trial and intervenes on his behalf, offering him a choice: either go to jail, or be released under Lambeau's personal supervision to study mathematics and see a therapist. Will chooses the latter, even though he does not believe he needs therapy. Will treats the first five psychologists Lambeau has him see with utter contempt. In desperation, Lambeau finally calls on Sean Maguire (Robin Williams), an estranged old friend and MIT classmate who just happens to have grown up in the same neighborhood as Will. Sean differs from his predecessors in that he pushes back at Will and is eventually able to get past Will's hostile, sarcastic defense mechanisms. Will is particularly struck when Sean tells him how he gave up his ticket to see the Red Sox in the 1975 World Series (thus missing Carlton Fisk's famous home run in Game 6) in order to meet and spend time with a stranger in a bar, who would later become his wife. This encourages Will to try to establish a relationship with Skylar (Minnie Driver), a young woman he meets at a bar near Harvard University.
This doctor-patient relationship, however, is far from one-sided. Will challenges Sean to take a hard, objective look at his own life. Sean has been unable to deal with his first beloved wife's premature death from cancer two years before.
Meanwhile, Lambeau pushes Will so hard that Will eventually refuses to go to the job interviews that Lambeau arranges for him. Will accidentally walks in while Lambeau and Sean are furiously squabbling about the direction of his future.
Skylar asks Will to move to California with her, where she will begin medical school at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Will panics at the thought. When Skylar expresses sympathy about his past, it triggers a tantrum and Will storms out of the dorm. He shrugs off the work he has been doing for Lambeau as "a joke". Lambeau begs Will not to throw it all away, but Will walks out.
Sean points out that Will is so adept at anticipating future failure in his romantic relationships, that he either allows them to fizzle out or deliberately bails, so he can avoid the risk of emotional pain. When Will refuses to give an honest reply to Sean's query about what he wants to do with his life, Sean shows him the door. Will tells his best friend Chuckie (Ben Affleck) that he wants to be a laborer for the rest of his life. Chuckie becomes brutally honest with Will: he feels it's an insult for Will to waste his potential, and that his greatest wish is to knock on Will's door one morning and find he isn't there.
Will goes to another therapy session, where he and Sean share that they were both victims of child abuse. At first, Will is defensive and resentful at Sean's repeated reassurances that "It's not your fault", but he eventually breaks down in tearful acknowledgment. Finally, after much self-reflection, Will decides to cease being a victim of his own inner demons and to take charge of his life.
When his buddies present him with a rebuilt Chevrolet Nova for his 21st birthday, he decides to go after Skylar, setting aside his lucrative corporate and government job offers. Will leaves a brief note for Sean, using one of Sean's own quips, "I had to go see about a girl." Chuckie discovers that Will has finally gone. Will is then shown starting for California for a new beginning with Skylar and a leap into the Great Unknown.
Good Will Hunting is a great movie that doesn't have anything that bored me to sleep. The Dialogue was great, the Humor was funny, and seeing Will Hunting break down at the end was the most touching parts about this movie. thou i really liked Robin Williams in this movie, i truly believe that Matt Damon did the best job in this movie. As Will Hunting says "How do ya like them Apples". -
MCT:November 10, 2008
Will was just this genious problematic kid who was not aware of his mathematics talent. Every psychologist who tried to treat him ran away except Robin Williams. He knew how to win Will's trust and that speech at the park was the key to make Will get out from his childhood trauma and to help him to decide about his future.
Gus Van Sant prove again the original director he is.
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TheSlowPenguinposted 446 days ago -
Id watch this just for the Southie accents. a great inspiring film.
posted 626 days ago -
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 688 days ago -
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 690 days ago -
"Gonna find my baby, gonna hold her tight, gonna grab some afternoon delight" - A great song to end a great movie.
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