Good Will Hunting - Collector's Edition

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Summary: A TRULY HEARTFELT MOVIE, SPECTACULAR!
Review: Good Will Hunting is one of the best movie I've ever seen and I just can't forget how terrific it is. The story of this movie is extremely well-written and the movie itself is very well-acted by great actors such as Robin William, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and many more. I can really feel the emotions when I was watching the movie because the actors, especially William and Damon have shown remarkable efforts to make their character more appealing through their outstanding performence in the role each of them played.

The story relates about an orphan kid, Will Hunting(Matt Damon) who was brought up in foster families and had bitter experience of abusement by his foster fathers during his childhood age. He grew up in a state of being abandoned and therefore, he's always afraid of being rejected by other people. Now, he has grown up with terrible characteristics. He's been charged several times for assault and other crimes. He often goofs around with his friends who happen to be pricks and this made his life looks pathetic.

BUT, he's very gifted in academic. This is because he prefers to read in the library. He rather to read on his own than studying in some unecessary overspending bucks universities(that's what he thinks). His talent in mathematic is noticed by a professor(Prof. Lambeau) in the university where he's working as a janitor. Will managed to solve a mathematical teorem about calculus on a board written by Lambeau where no any other brilliant student could in that university.

Lambeau is having hard time finding who's the mystery guy who solved the teorem. He bailed Will from jail(charged on assault) when he finds out that Will is the person. Lambeau wishes to lead Will to the correct path and brighter future of his life and so, he brings Will to meet a few shrinks to give him counselling sessions. Unfortunately, no one managed to handle the wild-charactered Will till he brings him to meet his college friend, Dr. Sean (Robin William)who happen to be a counsellor. Although Will is wild, but Sean be very patient with him because he knows that he will eventually reaches Will's heart of hearts. Finally, he did. Because both of them have quite a similar childhood experience, they managed to communicate with each other and get to talk about their own feeling. At the end, Sean succeeded to enlighten Will's mind and he has changed from a spoiled brat to a rational thinker. He then realized what's important for his life.

The ending is sweet where Will is after his love life where he rejected at first and heading to find his girlfriend. Meanwhile, the relation between Lambeau and Sean which is bitter at first turned out to be better at the end. The ending is very nice and complete for such a movie. If anyone watches this movie carefully and attentionly, they will find a few messages that this movie brings is very EDUCATIONAL and could be taken as lessons for us nowadays.

After watching this movie, I feel that Robin William truly deserves his Oscar for BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR and Damon and Affleck indeed deserve their Oscar for BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY for the movie in 1998. The other elements in this movie such as sounds, musics, cinematography and a few more are also very wonderful. I feel that it's just very very unlucky for this movie to be competing against Titanic(1997) in that year for several Oscar's categories nomination for the winner. I bet this magnificent movie could've won a few more Oscars back then if it's not released in the same year as the luminious Oscars winning movie, Titanic.

Still, this movie is a GREAT MASTERPIECE written by Damon and Affleck and directed by Gus Van Sant. It WILL be remebered for years. Watch it yourself to realize its magnificentess! EXCELLENT!

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Summary: Folgers Moment
Review: Good Will Hunting is a movie drama that was released in 1997 and has a running time of 126 mimutes. The director Gus Van Zant and Miramax Home Entertainment absolutely came through together in making a very enjoyable film that still has not lost its luster, even after 7 years. However, Gus had a pretty amazing cast to work with including such actors as Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and Mini Driver. Robin Williams won Best Supporting Actor, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck won Best Original Screenplay, which was quite an honor for them being as young and underexperienced as they were at the time.

The movie was set in 1997 in the South Boston suburbs or Southy as they referred to several times throughout the movie. It is more or less the lower income side of Boston in which Matt Damon (Will Hunting) and Ben Affleck (Chuckie Sullivan)and a few of the other supporting actors were from. The major theme of the movie was to watch Matt (Will Hunting) going through his life with history of parental abuse and living in several different homes while growing up and learning to deal with it by talking to Robin (Sean Maguire) a community college counselor who was also originally from Southy.

Will Hunting is a janitor at MIT one the most prestigous colleges in the world. During his late night shifts Will would solve very complicated math problems left on the board for other students to solve. For the longest time the professor and other students could not figure out who was solving them until one night when Stellan Skarsgard (Proffessor Lambeau) caught Will solving his prolems. Eventually Professor Lambeau ended up finding were Will was and actually ended up bailing him out of jail for a fight that Will had gotten in to. Will (who has a genuis IQ) had to promise to spend time with the professor solving problems and also had to agree to go to counseling to for his anger.

After going through several shrinks Professor Lambeau gives one last chance with an old college buddy that he had a fallen out with years ago, which was Robin (Sean). Sean and Will battle it out several times, but Will stays with Sean because he knows he grew up the same way he did and he respects that. One my favorite parts of the movie is when Will and Sean are sitting on a park bench and Sean who had been getting reemed by Will on an emotional level the last few times they had met, starts asking Will if he had ever done anything or been anywhere that he had read in a book, even though Will never spoke during this scene it was a breaking point for Will, becasue this is one the first times anyone had ever challenged him and he didn't know how to respond.

So eventually Will meets a girl Skylar (Mini Driver) and he likes her alot but he can't seem to get to emotionally into her, because of his past and everybody usually leaving him. Just when he started getting attached to them they seemed to always take off, except for his friends (Chuckie, Morgan, and Tom)which was the only family he had left. By now Will and Sean are doing pretty good in their talks and the professor is trying to get Will a job, but Will doesn't want any of these jobs. Then he learns that Skylar is going to another school and wants Will to go with her, but he declines because of his attachment issues.

The final scenes has Will going into Sean's office and they begin talking about the past abuse some more and Will begins to cry and you can tell that Will has finally broken through his past history of abuse and abandonment and feels like now he can be more open and emotionally attached to people. The final scene has Will driving to find Skylar.

This is by far one of my favorite movies and the best part about this drama is that there was comedy in and out of it that allowed you to be closer with the actors. I ranked this film with four stars because everytime I watch it I get the same reaction and not to many movies can do that over and over.

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Summary: Good Will Hunting (1997)
Review: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote/acted Superbly co-starring with Minnie Driver, Robin Williams, and Casey Affleck, This film deserves 5 fingers up I own it on DVD and everytime I watch It I think "What a great movie", With a Fresh IDEA and clever writing. This movie is a classic.