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Good Will Hunting

Good Will Hunting

1997
R
126 min
Drama Romance

Plot Summary

A touching tale of a wayward young man who struggles to find his identity, living in a world where he can solve any problem, except the one brewing deep within himself, until one day he meets his soul mate who opens his mind and his heart.

8.3
IMDb Rating
97%
Rotten Tomatoes
71
Metacritic
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Ratings & Reviews

8.3
IMDb Rating
97%
Rotten Tomatoes
71
Metacritic

Technical Details

126 min
Runtime
09 Jan 1998
Release Date
R
Content Rating
Movie
Content Type
1997
Year
Genres
Drama Romance

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User Reviews

tmdb40011370

8.0/10
Recent

Will Hunting, is a working class 20 year old mathematical genius, and yet chooses to shun a university education, preferring instead to be a janitor at Harvard university. At a social level he is headstrong, arrogant, likes getting into fights as well as ending up in police cells for his regular anti-social behaviour. Despite having friends, they are not shining beacons leading him into a better light. He is happy with his lot, shuns commitment and his best form of defence is attack both...

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BornKnight

8.0/10
Recent

Psychological drama well in the beginning of Ben Aflleck and Matt Damon in their careers - they star (with Matt in the role of the protagonist) and wrote the script together. The director was Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy). The movie tells a story about a irish-descendant boy in Boston that works as janitor in a mathematics faculty, and it is a self-taught genius, with a troubled past and present - some mathematical riddles are left by the head of the chair in the faculty (Skarsgård) and my...

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r96sk

r96sk

9.0/10
Recent

So great! <em>'Good Will Hunting'</em> is a film I had heard many a great thing about but had never actually seen it so didn't know anything about the plot - so much so that I genuinely thought it was about the good will of hunting or something... and certainly not about a character named Will Hunting! The poster makes it look like a film of that sort, in my defence. I also didn't realise, aside from the lead two, that the cast list was so stacked until the credits came up at the start. Th...

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