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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 .
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are American actors, screenwriters, and producers from Cambridge, Massachusetts who have frequently collaborated throughout their careers. The duo first gained recognition in 1997 after they won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Good Will Hunting, which they wrote and starred in together.
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 ...
[9] [10] [11] Affleck starred in Bay's war film Pearl Harbor (2001), which despite negative reviews was a box office hit. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] His career subsequently went through a period of decline when he starred in a series of critical and commercial failures, including Gigli (2003).
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 ...
Minnie Driver has enjoyed a sort of longevity in Hollywood not many actors have, but there's one experience she considers to be the "best" of her career: Good Will Hunting.The 53-year-old star ...
Wood was mentioned in the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. In one scene, Matt Damon's character mentions Gordon Wood while standing up to a Harvard student who is ridiculing Ben Affleck's character at a bar. He accuses the Harvard student of shallowly reiterating ideas he has encountered in his coursework, telling him that soon he would be ...
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.