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10/15/02
Good Will Hunting (1997)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:57
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.1/10
Consensus: Van Sant, working from Affleck and Damon's script, lends warmth and real emotion to the film's somewhat basic story.
Runtime: 2 hrs 6 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: A South Boston whiz kid elects to clean the halls of learning rather than enter them, slumming his way through life as a janitor at MIT. But his natural ability to unravel complex equations... [More]
Starring: Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver
Director: Gus Van Sant
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09/10/02
É realmente impressionante que dois jovens como Matt Damon e Ben Affleck tenham sido capazes de escrever um roteiro tão complexo quanto o de 'Gênio Indomável'.
05/31/02
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04/12/02
Three soul friends help a troubled young man to find his place in the world.
03/01/02
Touching, without being sentimental, and feelgood without appearing contrived, this is one shrink-wrapped drama that's worth unpacking.
12/10/01
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02/27/01
While the charismatic performances of Damon and Affleck make "Good Will Hunting" a difficult entertainment to resist, doing just that is not as hard as the film would like to think.
02/14/01
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01/01/01
There's nothing original in this picture, yet it's intensely likable just the same.
01/01/00
Almost any viewer will enjoy Good Will Hunting moment by moment, but many will wake the next morning wondering why, with all that talent on hand, it amounts to so little in the end.
01/01/00
Top CriticGood Will Hunting may well be the Rocky story of the 90s.
01/01/00
The Damon-Affleck script is jammed with good ideas, strong dialogue and vigorous characters...
01/01/00
All told, the film has plenty of enjoyable moments, but it's just not the deep experience the filmmakers want you to believe it is.
01/01/00
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01/01/00
Good Will Hunting is a confident film with great performances and an authentic look, sound and feel.
01/01/00
Cynics may dismiss the film as an overly effusive festival of male-bonding, but for the rest of us, this is just the catharsis we need.
01/01/00
Executed with such maximum grace, style and heartfelt emotional realism that it's almost enough to make the concept of an 'uplifting' movie not seem like such a big fat cheat any more.
01/01/00
Despite its schematic layout and predictable outcome, the ensemble acting is of such a high level -- particularly that of Robin Williams, Matt Damon and Stellan Skarsgard -- that the impact on his audience is spellbinding.
01/01/00
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