Good Will Hunting
| Good Will Hunting | |
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Theatrical release poster
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| Directed by | Gus Van Sant |
| Produced by | Lawrence Bender |
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| Music by | Danny Elfman |
| Cinematography | Jean-Yves Escoffier |
| Edited by | Pietro Scalia |
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Lawrence Bender Productions
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| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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Running time
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126 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $10 million |
| Box office | $225.9 million |
| Good Will Hunting: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture | |
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| Soundtrack album by Various artists | |
| Released | December 2, 1997 |
| Genre | Soundtrack, indie rock, acoustic rock, indie folk |
| Label | Capitol |
| Good Will Hunting: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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| Soundtrack album by Danny Elfman, Elliott Smith | |
| Released | March 3, 2014 |
| Genre | Soundtrack |
| Label | Music Box Records |
Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film, directed by Gus Van Sant, and starring Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver and Stellan Skarsgård. Written by Affleck and Damon (and with Damon in the title role), the film follows 20-year-old South Boston laborer Will Hunting, an unrecognized genius who, as part of a deferred prosecution agreement after assaulting a police officer, becomes a client of a therapist and studies advanced mathematics with a renowned professor. Through his therapy sessions, Will re-evaluates his relationships with his best friend, his girlfriend and himself, facing the significant task of confronting his past and thinking about his future.
The film received positive reviews and was a financial success. It grossed over US$225 million during its theatrical run with only a modest $10 million budget. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture, and won two: Best Supporting Actor for Williams and Best Original Screenplay for Affleck and Damon.
After Williams' death in 2014, it was ranked at number 53 in The Hollywood Reporter's "100 Favorite Films" list.
Twenty-year-old Will Hunting (Matt Damon) of South Boston is a self-taught, genius-level intellect, though he works as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and spends his free time drinking with his friends, Chuckie (Ben Affleck), Billy (Cole Hauser) and Morgan (Casey Affleck). When Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgård) posts a difficult mathematics problem as a challenge for his graduate students, Will solves the problem anonymously, stunning both the graduate students and Lambeau. As a challenge to the unknown genius, Lambeau posts an even more difficult problem. Will solves the problem, but then flees the scene when Lambeau catches him. At the bar, Will meets Skylar (Minnie Driver), a British student about to graduate from Harvard, who plans on attending medical school at Stanford.
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