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Good Will Hunting
Starring Matt Damon; A youth with a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life. While MIT as a janitor, he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem which exposes him to Professor Gerald who decides to help him attain his potential.
25 January 1966, USA
12 August 1975, Falmouth, Massachusetts, USA
5 August 1965, New York City, New York, USA
2 October 1957, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
22 March 1975, Santa Barbara, California, USA
9 February 1944, USA
August 28, 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
May 26, 2006
Can get overly sentimental at times, but Gus Van Sant's sensitive direction... and his excellent use of the city make it a hugely entertaining and effective film.
June 25, 2005
For the first time in his career, Van Sant is invisible as a filmmaker, simply getting out of the way of the story and his performers. The film is richer for it.
August 15, 2014
A crowd-pleaser, with bags of charm to spare.
October 07, 2005
The film succeeds not because of an overall arc, but as a chain of smaller moments that glimmer in their minuscule perfection.
February 09, 2006
It's acted and directed with care, and Damon is outstanding, his scenes with Driver being especially sparky.
May 09, 2007
Despite its coarse exterior, Good Will Hunting proves to be a rather positive and motivational experience.
December 05, 2016
The best thing about Good Will Hunting is not in its well-crafted, psychological symmetries but in the just-plain messiness of its humanity. It's rowdy, it's funny, it's heartbreaking - it rings of life.
February 14, 2001
While the charismatic performances of Damon and Affleck make "Good Will Hunting" a difficult entertainment to resist, doing just that is not as hard as the film would like to think.
January 01, 2000
Good Will Hunting narrowly avoids many sentimental pitfalls thanks to what doesn't happen...
April 27, 2007
The film works as a character-driven narrative because Mr. Van Sant and his co-screenwriters are not afraid to unlock the psychological mysteries of their five major characters with clear and concise dialogue.
February 05, 2008
Towering performance by Matt Damon as a troubled working class who needs to address his creative genius elevates this drama way above its therapeutic approach, resulting in a zeitgeist film that may touch chord with young viewers the way The Graduate did
