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Release Date: 04 March, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 OUR Price: $9.99 You SAVE: $5.00! Cast: Complete Cast (7 total) |
Good Will Hunting - Collector's Edition Reviews
How do you like THEM apples?
Had a friend once who snickered at my enthusiasm for this movie. The brainless cretin described it a "chick flick" and I had to give him a long winded explanation of why he was once more way off the beam.
"Goodwill Hunting" is a classic guy movie about guys who do guy things. Above all other story elements, this is a movie about boyhood friends and the uncompromising loyalty of those friendships. There are scenes here that should make you miss the buddies you turned of age with, those great friends who were there when you had your first drink, chased your first skirt and got into your first bar brawl.
Will Hunting is a genius and that becomes the crux of the film. He is a genius, yes. But mostly, he is a young man with the typical frustrations and misgivings that come with the age. He has issues with girls, issues with the law, and issues with his own place in the world.
This quickly became one of my all-time favorites because it is a movie with endless depth and substance. The story of the young punk with a criminal record outshining the rest of mathematical minds is compelling from the start. So is the attempt by the bedraggled but committed psychiatrist to reach the boy and the weird friendship that forms between them.
South Boston serves as a beautiful and shabby backdrop as Hunting feels himself drifting away from his buddies as his genius gets more attention from the world of universities and prestige he is unfamiliar with. He wants to continue working construction and hanging out in the seedy bars with his friends, rather than have his fluke ability exploited by men with greedy ambitions and concerns over petty things like tenure.
Matt Damon is stellar as the streetwise Hunting, an orphan with an attitude. Robin Williams leaves his goofiness behind and plays the aging psychiatrist who was once a tough young man just like the kid he is trying to help. While praising that pair, no one should overlook the talents of Ben Affleck, who was a credible actor before he started landing on the tabloid covers.
The relationship between Damon and Affleck is powerful. The latter knows his childhood friend is bound for great things and prods him to achieve in that silent, macho way good friends have.
"If you're still here in ten years, I'll kill you. That's not a threat, it's a fact. I'll freakin' kill you," Affleck says, as the two take time for a beer during lunch break at work. Because that is how good friends talk to each other when crucial matters are at hand.
Watching as Hunting battle with himself as he ponders the idea of flying away from the tough but familiar streets he grew up on is only half the allure of this film. Each character that comes into Hunting's world is rich and dynamic, and somehow vital to the decisions the young genius needs to make.
This one is never far off my top five list of all-time movie greats. And not just because it's great to see a tough southy intellectually thrashing a silver spoon college kid, either.
Words can't do justice
For me, this film was about Matt Damon, a brilliant newcomer who came out of (seemingly) nowhere. I was floored by his performance - one of the best of the 20th century. Of course he was supported by a fine cast - Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, and the loveable Minnie Driver, whose onscreen chemistry with Damon was sizzling. Matt is an emerald in a heap of cheap diamonds, and obviously a multi-talented guy - he co-wrote the screenplay as well as starred in it. Well worth seeing.
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