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A brilliant benchmark for it's genre.
Personally I'm an action flick man, but when I picked up this film I couldn't believe it.Me liking a drama? That's something for me.This, I must say, is one of the best movies I have ever seen.It is one of those films which richly deserves every ounce of praise it gets.The cast are brilliant(Daman, Affleck, Driver especially.)and Robin Williams is just the best, the warmth and depth he gives to the films is imeasaurable,the script is absolutely compelling(Affleck and Damon won an Academy Award for it.), and in areas it really makes you think seriously.It's about a kid who's an absolute genius in his own time, doing complex equations with the skill of the leading proffeser in the university Will(Damon) works in, and his job is a local janitor.But his problem is that he has had a troubled past and is regularly cautioned for offences against the law. The proffeser sees him refuses to give him up and so takes him under his own wing and he has to find a shrink for Will Hunting (Damon), no easy task.Finally the task falls into the hands of a retired mate/shrink of the proffeser- played by Robin Williams.This is film for anyone really, I would find it hard to comprehend if anyone didn't like it.The only problem with the film is that it's swearing will offend some poeople( a very small minority), but I'm not one of those people.Buy it, rent it but watch it whatever you do.

A briliant benchmark for its genre.
Personally I'm an action flick man, but when I picked up this film I couldn't believe it.Me liking a drama? That's something for me.This, I must say, is one of the best movies I have ever seen.It is one of those films which richly deserves every ounce of praise it gets.The cast are brilliant(Daman, Affleck, Driver especially.)and Robin Williams is just the best, the warmth and depth he gives to the films is imeasaurable,the script is absolutely compelling(Affleck and Damon won an Academy Award for it.), and in areas it really makes you think seriously.It's about a kid who's an absolute genius in his own time, doing complex equations with the skill of the leading proffeser in the university Will(Damon) works in, and his job is a local janitor.But his problem is that he has had a troubled past and is regularly cautioned for offences against the law. The proffeser sees him refuses to give him up and so takes him under his own wing and he has to find a shrink for Will Hunting (Damon), no easy task.Finally the task falls into the hands of a retired mate/shrink of the proffeser- played by Robin Williams.This is film for anyone really, I would find it hard to comprehend if anyone didn't like it.The only problem with the film is that it's swearing will offend some poeople( a very small minority), but I'm not one of those people.Buy it, rent it but watch it whatever you do.

The search for goodwill
I had a teacher who once said that the brightest students oftenweren't the ones getting A's. I think he would have liked "GoodWill Hunting", a movie about a young genius floundering away as a janitor at M.I.T.

Matt Damon plays the troubled kid, Will Hunting and Ben Afflect ("Chasing Amy") plays his best friend Chuckie. (In real life, Affleck and Damon are good friends and co-wrote the screenplay, which won an Oscar and a Golden Globe; Damon was also nominated for Best Actor, although some have suggested that may be undeserved.) The story focuses on Will. An abused orphan, the young man solves a difficult mathematical theorem and is soon envied by the professors at M.I.T. He also has a rap sheet as long as his arm and is released from jail only on the condition he sees a therapist. After an unsuccessful start with a number of big-name shrinks, he settles in with one he begins to trust (played by Robin Williams). He also falls for a Harvard pre-med student (well played by Minnie Driver) he meets in a bar. There's a good scene .....

"Good Will Hunting" is directed by Gus Van Sant, who previously directed "Drugstore Cowboy" (a personal favorite) and "My Own Private Idaho" - two good films. Honestly, though, I liked those films more than this one which is shot rather conventionally (and not as artfully). Also there's nothing new in Will's relationship with Robin Williams. Still, the movie's heart is in the right place and the ending worked for me.

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