Intimate, heartfelt and wickedly funny, it's a movie whose impact lingers.
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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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Reviews for Good Will Hunting
Top CriticAt the core of Good Will Hunting is vivid, succulent dialogue that is emotionally naked, yet remarkably pedestrian at the same time.
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The outcome of the movie is fairly predictable; so is the whole story, really. It's the individual moments, not the payoff, that make it so effective.
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... accomplishes the rarely obtained goal of creating a wide variety of intricate characters, all worth caring about.
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Between this film and John Grisham's The Rainmaker, Damon surfaces as one swell addition to the front line of screen actors.
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Top Critic...a pretty remarkable film...
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This is the sort of honest and moving story that Hollywood doesn't put out much anymore.
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