Good Will Hunting

Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant, and stars Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver and Stellan Skarsgrd. Written by Affleck and Damon, and with Damon in the title role, the film follows 20yearold 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 Williams and studies advanced mathematics with a renowned professor Skarsgrd. Through his therapy sessions, Will reevaluates his relationships with his best friend Affleck, his girlfriend Driver and himself, facing the significant task of thinking about his future.

Twentyyearold Will Hunting Damon of South Boston is a selftaught, geniuslevel intellect with an eidetic memory, though he works simply as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and spends his free time drinking with his friends, Chuckie Affleck, Billy Cole Hauser and Morgan Casey Affleck. When Professor Gerald Lambeau Skarsgrd posts a difficult problem taken from algebraic graph theory as a challenge for his graduate students, Will solves the problem anonymously, stunning both the graduate students and Lambeau himself. As a challenge to the unknown genius, Lambeau posts an even more difficult problem and chances upon Will solving it. Fearing he will lose his sole means of a meager income, Will flees and skips going into work the next day. That night, Will meets Skylar Driver, a British orphan about to graduate from Harvard, who plans on attending medical school at Stanford.Assaulting both a man who bullied him as a child and a police officer who attempts to break up the fight, Will faces incarceration, but Lambeau arranges for him to forgo jail time if he agrees to study mathematics under Lambeaus supervision while simultaneously seeking psychotherapy. Will tentatively agrees but treats his first few therapists with contempt his refusal to open up is met with staunch defiance by the bourgeois mentality of the therapists, who each refuse to treat Will further. In desperation, Lambeau calls on Dr. Sean Maguire Williams, his estranged and much more grounded college roommate, who now teaches psychology at Bunker Hill Community College. Unlike the other therapists, Sean actually challenges Wills weak defense mechanisms, and after a few unproductive sessions, Will begins to open up. ........

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