Good Will Hunting [Blu-Ray] (1997) Feature
- Actors: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck
- Number of discs: 1
Good Will Hunting [Blu-Ray] (1997) Overview
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.
Good Will Hunting [Blu-Ray] (1997) Specifications
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
Good Will Hunting takes the rare phenomenon of ultra-academic genius and has developed a human interest story are subject to the capricious (Will) and Professor of Psychology (Sean), which for him outside and teach him to stop trying to run away if SUSS themselves. To add irony, is the genius of a worker, especially in Boston and near the high temple university like MIT and Harvard.
This is a great film and is a useful concept that occur can not be builtthe great spirit of this direction is missing in life. However, can not shake the feeling that the producers would have more on the development of important main character to have his therapy. Perhaps they were thinking of a sequel, but it's quite simple.
The history of not meeting your potential in life probably strikes a deep chord with many viewers. Mind you, academic potential is not necessarily a good social skills or good fortune and this film togethersent that concept around.
Overall, lots to see two hours, with some illustrations of great character.
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