Good Will Hunting

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Good Will Hunting is the Miramax movie written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and directed by Gus Van Sant. Starring the two Academy Award winning writers Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, plus Academy Award winning actor Robin Williams, Academy Award nominee Minnie Driver, and Stellen Skarsgard the movie went on to be nominated for 9 Academy Awards and win two.

The movie is based around the life of Will Hunting (Matt Damon), who is a troubled orphan growing in the slums of South Boston, referred to as "Southie". Will is a genius of unprecendented standards, but is never discovered until a MIT professor, Gerald Lambeau (Stellen Skarsgard) sees Hunting, who is a janitor solve a complicated math equation that had taken him, a Fields Medal winner, over two years to solve. Hunting solved it on a single night.

Hunting, who holds past grudges, gets in a fight with his three best friends, Chuckie (Ben Affleck), Billy (Cole Hauser), and Morgan (Casey Affleck), against a group of other people. The cops show up and Hunting is arrested for hitting a cop and sent to jail. It is then that Will solves the complicated math equation. He is sent to jail but the professor, who must have some pull in Boston was able to get Will out of jail if he works on math proofs and see a psychologist.

Hunting agrees, but has a hard time with dealing with a psychologist, scaring five away, two are shown. He then meets Lambeau's old college roommate, Sean Maguire (Robin Williams). It is Magurire that turns around Will because he is not afraid to talk back to him.

Will also finds love in a girl he met in a bar, Skyla (Minnie Driver). He lies to her at first to cover his background which catches up with him when she asks him to move to California with her. He gets extremely mad and leaves, telling her he doesn't love her, even though he does. He is finally healed with help of Maguire when he tells him that all that has happened to him is not his fault. He then leaves his home to go to California to "see about a girl". The movie ends.