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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 .
After meeting Damon on the set of Good Will Hunting, director Steven Spielberg cast him in the brief title role in the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan. [43] He co-starred with Edward Norton in the 1998 poker film Rounders , where he plays a reformed gambler in law school who must return to playing high-stakes poker to help a friend ...
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 ...
Affleck then parodied Good Will Hunting with Damon and Van Sant in Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), [80] made a cameo in the comedy Daddy and Them (2001), [81] and had a supporting role in the little-seen The Third Wheel (2002). [29] He portrayed the CIA analyst Jack Ryan in the thriller The Sum of All Fears (2002).
The best friend duo had their defining moment 19 years ago when they accepted the Academy Award for Original Screenplay for "Good Will Hunting," a win that catapulted the pair's already burgeoning ...
Minnie Driver reflects on 'Good Will Hunting' 25 years later: 'We were just having a great time, being in love and loving each other' Taryn Ryder. March 21, 2023 at 4:14 PM.
During a course in which he was tasked with writing a one-act play, he wrote the beginnings of what would become Good Will Hunting. [18] Affleck enrolled at the University of Vermont in 1990, owing to what he describes as "unrequited love for a high school girlfriend." Soon after classes begun, he fractured his hip during a game of intramural ...
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 ...