Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant. Alongside Ben Affleck and Robin Williams, the film starred Matt Damon in the lead role of Will Hunting, aprodigy hoodlum from South Boston who works as a janitor at MIT. Written by and starring Affleck and Damon, Good Will Hunting was met with both critical and financial success, beginning Affleck and Damon's rise to stardom. Good Will Hunting financially grossed over twenty-two times its $10,000,000 budget during its theatrical run and later earned nineAcademy Award nominations, two of which it won
Will Hunting (Matt Damon) is a janitor at the MIT and has a genius-level intellect and a profound gift for mathematics. Despite this, he chooses to work as a janitor and lives alone in a sparsely-furnished house in a rundown South Boston neighborhood, spending time with his friends Chuckie Sullivan (Ben Affleck), Billy McBride (Cole Hauser) and Morgan O'Mally (Casey Affleck). An abused foster child, he subconsciously blames himself for his unhappy upbringing and turns this self-loathing into a form of self-sabotage in both his professional and emotional life. (wiki)
