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Good Will Hunting (Miramax Collector's Series)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: DAMON,MATT
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
EAN: 9786305216087
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305216088
Label: Miramax
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: 717951000552
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 08, 1998
Running Time: 126 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: January 09, 1998
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Editorial Review:
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
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
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 ... Read More
Rating: - True Drama!
Fascinating story of a math genius (Matt Damon) who is satisfied with being a janitor by day, and carousing with friends at night. Others become involved in trying to steer him to pursue a career using his rare talents, but repeatedly fail. At the same time, old conflict and shortcomings of those trying to help are revealed.
Eventually it is one of Will's buddies (Ben Affleck) who motivates Will to give up his carousing, and the psychiatrist's (Robin Williams) early life choices that ... Read More
Rating:  - Another rackworthy movie
Math prodigy Will Hunting must work through his emotional wounds in exchange for working with a math professor. The therapeutic relationship between Damon and Williams is what won Affleck and Damon the oscar for best screenplay. Easily in my top 5.
Rating:  - Middle of the road.
Good Will Hunting doesn't seem as good as it used to be. The peformances are not that special either, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck still haven't proven they are great actors. Robin Williams steals the movie, he won an Oscar best supporting actor. Damon and Affleck's screenplay is pretty good but not spectacular. I can't really watch this movie anymore, seems shallow and pretentious now and I usually enjoy Gus Van Sant's films.
Rating:  - What was Good about Will Hunting?
Honestly, what was good about him? Not to make an issue on the title, but Hunting was far from an honest citizen. Genius? Yes. Honest citizen? No.
I'm surprised this movie is rated so high by film critics and by viewers nationwide despite the amount of holes this movie has in its story. Not to mention lackluster performances by some of its main characters and the overall story's believability.
So we're presented with Will Hunting who is the cleanest cut dropout reject ... Read More
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