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Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. It stars Robin Williams , Damon, Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård and Minnie Driver . The film tells the story of janitor Will Hunting, whose mathematical genius is discovered by a professor at MIT .
"It repeatedly appears in the top 100 movies, best movies ever made," she says of the 1997 film. "It was great." Good Will Hunting led to another "iconic" moment in Driver's life.
Before "Hunting," Affleck and Damon had appeared in a few other projects together, but this was their first (and most serious) role to gain much traction with audiences and critics.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck say that Casey Affleck's claim he was forced to audition for his role in their 1997 film Good Will Hunting is "a bold-face lie.". In an interview with Deadline, the ...
[3] [4] In 1997, Affleck played a comics artist in Smith's art-house success Chasing Amy. He co-wrote the script and starred with Matt Damon in Gus Van Sant's drama film Good Will Hunting, for which they won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. [5] [6] Affleck emerged a star with Michael Bay's top-grossing science fiction film ...
His first leading role was in the legal drama film The Rainmaker (1997). [2] His breakthrough came later that year when he played the title role of an unrecognized genius in Good Will Hunting, which he also co-wrote with Ben Affleck. [3] They won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Damon was nominated for Best Actor.
Matt Damon’s work as an actor, writer and producer has cemented him as one of the entertainment industry’s biggest stars. Damon was born in October 1970 to parents Nancy Carlsson-Paige and ...
Following a brief appearance in the coming-of-age film Dazed and Confused (1993), he was cast in his first lead role in the romantic comedy-drama Chasing Amy (1997). The film Good Will Hunting, co-starring and co-written by Affleck and Damon, was released in 1997 to widespread acclaim and won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original ...