Good Will Hunting (Miramax Collector's Series)
by Gus Van Sant
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Actor: Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Minnie Driver, Robin Williams, Stellan Skarsg?rdDirector: Gus Van Sant
Brand: Disney
Writer: Matt Damon
Writer: Ben Affleck
Producer: Bob Weinstein
Producer: Chris Moore
Producer: Harvey Weinstein
Producer: Jonathan Gordon
Producer: Kevin Smith
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-12-08
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Miramax
Movie Reviews of Good Will Hunting (Miramax Collector's Series)
Movie Review: contrived, puerile, and nauseating, a cinematic fraud
Summary: 1 Stars
"You're good, Will! You're really good!" If you want Robin Williams wheezing this mantra in your face-- if you think that's all it'll take to give you the girl, a car, and a road out west, this is your film! This film has been used in courses on the Holocaust to show how propaganda works: by inducing a state of conformity in the target audience. I don't think I've ever seen a more dishonest film, or an uglier one.
Of course people who judge films by the effect they have on their moods will disagree. They don't see the similarity between this effect and say, the effect of...heroin. If they should happen upon actual art-- which is supposed to help human beings understand the world and how to live in it-- these people would of course reject it as "weird."
This is industrial propaganda masquerading as "honesty." Pure evil.
Having said that, in the years since this film was released, Matt Damon has come a long way towards becoming a real artist. Perhaps this horror was a compromise he made to the gods of commerce (it is said the once great screenwriter William Goldman-- now a hack-- actually contributed a great deal to this script).
Summary of Good Will Hunting (Miramax Collector's Series)
A true motion picture phenomenon, this triumphant story was nominated for 9 Academy Awards(R) -- winning Oscars for Robin Williams (Best Supporting Actor) and hot newcomers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck (Best Original Screenplay). The most brilliant mind at America's top university isn't a student ... he's the kid who cleans the floors! Will Hunting (Damon) 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 psychology professor (Williams), who might be the only man who can reach him! With acclaimed performances from Academy Award(R)-nominee Minnie Driver (GROSSE POINTE BLANK) and Ben Affleck (ARMAGEDDON) -- you'll find GOOD WILL HUNTING a powerful and unforgettable movie experience!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 Skarsg?rd). 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
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