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Good Will Hunting

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Good Will Hunting

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Oscar-winning drama starring Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck and Minnie Driver. Will Hunting has the most brilliant mind at America's top university. The problem is, he's a headstrong and penniless cleaner. Faced with a jail sentence, his fate lies in the hands of a therapist who is brought in to help him realise his true potential.

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A star rating of 4 out of 5.

Joanna Berry

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote and starred in this moving drama directed by Gus Van Sant. Damon plays Will, a wrong-side-of-the-tracks janitor at top college MIT, who has an exceptional mind and whose mathematical genius is discovered by one of the professors (Stellan Skarsgård) at the school. However, Will is an emotionally troubled young man, so a psychologist (Robin Williams) with problems of his own is brought in to help him. Skilfully directed and stunningly performed by Damon, Williams, Skarsgård, Affleck (as Will's best friend) and Minnie Driver (as Will's intellectual girlfriend), this is mesmerising from start to finish. It deservedly won Oscars for Damon and Affleck's screenplay as well as for Williams's subtle performance.

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Cast

rolenameWill HuntingMatt DamonSean McGuireRobin WilliamsChuckieBen AffleckSkylarMinnie DriverLambeauStellan SkarsgårdTomJohn MightonKrystynRachel MajorowskiCathyColleen McCauleyMorganCasey AffleckBillyCole HauserClarkScott William WintersPsychologistGeorge Plimpton

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rolenameDirectorGus Van Sant

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Theatrical distributor

Buena Vista International UK

Released on

1998-03-06

Languages

English

Guidance

Violence and swearing.

Available on

video, DVD and Blu-ray

Formats

Colour

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