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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DAMON,MATT
EAN: 9786305216087
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305216088
Label: Miramax
Manufacturer: Miramax
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 08, 1998
Running Time: 126 minutes
Sales Rank: 373
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: January 09, 1998
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Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who's failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a pyschology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: R
Release Date: 4-MAR-2003
Media Type: DVD
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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 of its gifted director, Gus Van Sant. The unconventional director (My Own Private Idaho, Drugstore Cowboy) saves a script marred by vanity and clunky character development by yanking soulful, touching performances out of his entire cast (amazingly, even one by Williams that's relatively schtick-free). Van Sant pulls off the equivalent of what George Cukor accomplished for women's melodrama in the '30s and '40s: He's crafted an intelligent, unabashedly emotional male weepie about men trying to find inner-wisdom.
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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Rating:  - Good will hunting by Brandon
I don't have to say how good this movie was. I could watch it all the time and never get tired of it.
Rating: - Inspirational and Entertaining Drama
After all these years, it's still hard to believe that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon wrote this screenplay. The Collector's Series edition has a commentary with Ben and Matt, where they talk about the genesis of the movie and how the screenplay changed from its inception to the final film cut. Every actor involved turns in brilliant performances--the casting of Robin Williams and Minnie Driver can't be overstated. "Good Will Hunting" is one inspirational drama that isn't sappy or ridiculously overwrought.
Rating:  - Einstein, Shakespeare--and Who???
Will Hunting (Matt Damon) is an MIT janitor and mathematical genius with a major attachment and abuse reactive disorders (though the film doesn't identify the latter). After solving an "impossible" math problem Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard) chalked on the board outside his classroom, the goodly pedant attends Hunting's latest arraignment for fighting, and convinces a skeptical judge that he can salvage the boy's otherwise futile life.
After false starts with several "master" psychologists whom Hunting easily outwits, Lambeau approaches Sean McGuire (Robin Williams). Lambeau figures, who better to help the boy than his eclectic former college roommate, like Hunting a tough-skinned "Southie" (South Boston native)?
Thus begins Hunting's frequent forays into Cambridge to "study" with Lambeau and his mathematical colleagues, whom he usually humiliates by solving their toughest problems in the blink of an eye.
In one clever scene, Hunting takes his best friend Chuckie (Ben Affleck) and two other Southie sidekicks to a Cambridge bar. Chuckie tries to impress Harvard student Skylar (Minnie Driver). A self-satisfied graduate student prig interrupts, and tries embarrassing Chuck to captivate Skylar. That backfires when Hunting steps in. He has also apparently read and memorized every book ever written. The prig slinks away in shame. As Hunting and friends depart, Skylar approaches and hands him her number.
As another reviewer notes, Good ... Read More
Rating: - Original and touching
Where do you start with such a wonderfully crafted story with an amazing cast.
A janitor (Matt Damon) at a college is discovered to be mathematically gifted by a highly acclaimed mathmetician at the college and is pressed to use his talent.
But Matt fights the approach because he's afraid of the unknown and doesn't want to leave his comfort zone of his friends, and unchallenging job. After fighting and kicking he finally gives in and slowly begins to break down his walls to experience the gift he has never used.
No one could have been better than Matt Damon. He takes the role on as if he truly was the character who was brought up in abusive foster homes and has built walls around his insecurities.
I loved to watch him. I believed him. And Minnie Driver as his girlfriend is captivating.
It's refreshing to see the very talented Robin Williams in a more serious role.
Rating: - An `okay' script produces a `good' movie thanks to some `great' performances...
There is an air of clichéd familiarity that runs through the veins of `Good Will Hunting', but that familiarity never reaches a point of exhaustion. What I mean to say is that there is enough going for the film that makes up for the lack of original (or even at times `realistic') spark. The plot is formulistic. You have a poor orphan who grew up in a rough neighborhood and never committed himself to education, yet he works as a janitor for a prestigious college so that he can listen and learn and when his impressive math IQ is discovered he is immediately pulled at from all angles in a struggle to dominate his genius. What takes this script to another level though are the marvelous performances that embody the film. I was really taken aback by everyone in the cast; the emotion and dedication and attention they gave to the spirit and soul of their characters.
To me, this film is above all else an acting showcase and I will review it as such.
First of all we have Matt Damon. For a long time I considered Matt to be just another pretty face; an actor who was there because of his chiseled abs and his charming demeanor, but then I saw `The Talented Mr. Ripley' and I realized that this guy is a very talented actor. Matt has proven again and again that he deserves his garnered fame. This performance was probably the first real confirmation of his talent. First of all he co-wrote the script; but that is not is forte. The script, like I mentioned, is formulistic and clichéd ... Read More
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