In the end it even falls back on that old cinematic panacea: get in touch with your inner Robin Williams. To an extent, the film challenges America's ingrained anti-intellectualism, yet its anti-elitist instincts lead it close to equating academia with a dubious effeminacy.
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Sean (Robin Williams) is the last resort: another South Boston guy who never really made it, maybe he can break through where his distinguished peers failed. It's been 20 years since 'Good Will Hunting' hit movie theaters and made household names of its screenwriters and stars, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Ranked among Forbes ' most bankable stars, the films in which he has appeared have collectively earned over 3.88 billion at the North American box office, making him one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. Sean Maguire, an important mentor figure to Will. Appalled that such a talent should be lost to science, maths professor Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgård) takes the boy under his wing, arranges for him to get psychiatric help, and watches Will make monkeys of the shrinks. Matthew Paige Damon ( / demn / born October 8, 1970) is an American actor, producer, and screenwriter. Good Will Hunting was originally released in 1997 and stars Damon as the titular Will Hunting, a 20-year-old janitor at MIT with a genius IQ level.
He's a closet genius, a volatile orphan who'd rather hang out with his beer buddies than parlay his brains into the lucrative career that would seem to be his destiny. An Oscar-winning screenplay by co-stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck propels this tale about a brilliant but undisciplined cleaner who confronts his problems. Matt Damon (who co-scripted, with Ben Affleck) plays Will, a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Good Will Hunting's sincerity comes capitalised, which is not to deny the film is honest and moving in its way. For those of you already well versed in the history of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck‘s Oscar-winning breakout film Good Will Hunting, this will be old news.But for everyone else, this will be.