![]() Professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard) MIT math prof and winner of the Fields Medal, the equivalent in the mathematical world of a Nobel Prize, who struggles to save Will Hunting from prison and underachievement. The moviegoer is reminded of her inferiority to the other leading characters, who happen to be male, by her being deprived of a surname. Skylar (Minnie Driver) Will Hunting's girlfriend who, though about to graduate from Harvard and go on to medical school at Stanford, abhors organic chemistry but loves going to the dog track, and who is smitten with Will Hunting upon his disclosing to her his theory of spider-brained geniuses. Worst enemy because he chains a 20-lb lead ball to Hunting's ankle best friend because he warns Hunting that if Hunting fails to swim the English Channel with that lead ball attached, he (Sullivan) will kill him (Hunting). Will Hunting (Matt Damon) Twenty-year-old hard-wired genius who prefers to mop MIT's floors and scrub its toilets when he could get a job teaching MIT students.Ĭhuckie Sullivan (Ben Affleck) Will Hunting's worst enemy and best friend. So, why isn't Will Hunting teaching math at MIT instead of sweeping its floors and scrubbing its toilets? One reason is that he's violent - but that's not so bad because he only beats up people who deserve it, such as a man whom he remembers bullied him when they were in kindergarten together. And after that Will Hunting proves within minutes a math theorem that had taken a team of MIT math profs several years. Twenty-year-old Will Hunting's parole officer has gotten him a job as an MIT janitor where he solves a math problem at a glance which no MIT graduate student is able to solve over several days. ![]() Confidential, The Full Montyįifty-Fifth Golden Globe Awards: Nominated for four awards, won Best Screenplay - Motion Picture (Ben Affleck and Matt Damon)įorty-Eighth Berlin International Film Festival: Nominated for three awards, won Silver Bear for outstanding single achievement (Matt Damon)Īs of, Good Will Hunting has grossed $138,433,435 Domestic and $225,933,435 Worldwide Plot: ![]() Among the competitors that year: Titanic, Wag the Dog, As Good as it Gets, L.A. Seventieth Academy Awards: Nominated for nine, won two: Best Supporting Actor (Robin Williams) and Best Original Screenplay (Ben Affleck and Matt Damon). Good Will Hunting (1997) has received the following awards: You are at Email comments posted 0 11:17am PST, last edited 0 09:23pm PST Educational-Movie Review: GOOD WILL HUNTING TwelveByTwelve (TBT) Pilot Study Explicit Transformational Syllabus (XTS) Fundamentals of TwelveByTwelve
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