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Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780788812019 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 0788812017 Label: Miramax Manufacturer: Miramax Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Miramax Release Date: December 01, 1998 Running Time: 126 minutes Studio: Miramax Theatrical Release Date: January 09, 1998 Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential video: One of the best films of the 1990s, this is one of those rare box office mega-hits that deserved all the adulation and awards it earned. Youthful stars Matt Damon and Ben Affleck earned an Academy Award for their incisive, witty script. Damon plays a janitor at MIT who is an enormously gifted mathematician. Salivating professors bring the angry and troubled young man to psychiatrist Robin Williams, hoping Damon will conform enough to further his education. (Williams garnered an Academy Award for his heartfelt performance.) Director Gus Van Sant put away his more invasive camera tricks and let the story tell itself. Good thing, because this is one involving and well-acted tale. Several plot tangents, including a sweet little romance between Damon and Minnie Driver, are carefully woven into the fabric of this multilayered drama. Friendship, societal expectations, and the long reach of a damaged childhood are all portrayed with such finesse that the story never feels heavy-handed. Extraordinarily optimistic, Good Will Hunting is exceptional because it causes elation and forces you to think. --Rochelle O'Gorman Average Rating:
 Rating:  - What makes films great!Character development at it's best. Written and on the screen. It draws audiences to see it and big name talent to be in it. Rating: - Good will hunting by BrandonI don't have to say how good this movie was. I could watch it all the time and never get tired of it. Rating: - Inspirational and Entertaining DramaAfter all these years, it's still hard to believe that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon wrote this screenplay. The Collector's Series edition has a commentary with Ben and Matt, where they talk about the genesis of the movie and how the screenplay changed from its inception to the final film cut. Every actor involved turns in brilliant performances--the casting of Robin Williams and Minnie Driver can't be overstated. "Good Will Hunting" is one inspirational drama that isn't sappy or ridiculously overwrought. Rating:  - Einstein, Shakespeare--and Who??? Will Hunting (Matt Damon) is an MIT janitor and mathematical genius with a major attachment and abuse reactive disorders (though the film doesn't identify the latter). After solving an "impossible" math problem Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard) chalked on the board outside his classroom, the goodly pedant attends Hunting's latest arraignment for fighting, and convinces a skeptical judge that he can salvage the boy's otherwise futile life. After false starts with several "master" ... Read More Rating: - Original and touchingWhere do you start with such a wonderfully crafted story with an amazing cast. A janitor (Matt Damon) at a college is discovered to be mathematically gifted by a highly acclaimed mathmetician at the college and is pressed to use his talent. But Matt fights the approach because he's afraid of the unknown and doesn't want to leave his comfort zone of his friends, and unchallenging job. After fighting and kicking he finally gives in and slowly begins to break down his walls to experience ... Read More |
