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ill Hunting (Matt Damon - Courage Under Fire and the upcoming The Rainmaker) is only twenty years old, but already stands out in his rough, working-class neighborhood in South Boston. Like his friends, he does menial jobs between stints at the local bar - and run-ins with the law. He's never
been to college, except to scrub floors as a janitor at MIT. Yet he can summon obscure historical references from a photographic memory, and almost instantly solve math problems that frustrate Nobel Prize winning professors. The one thing this remarkably bright, impossibly angry young man can't do - after his latest bar fight - is talk his way out of a pending jail sentence. His only hope is Sean McGuire (Robin Williams), a college professor-turned-therapist with an admiration for his emotional struggles, and a keen understanding of what it's like to fight your way through life.
Directed by Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy, To Die For) and produced by Lawrence Bender (Pulp Fiction), GOOD WILL HUNTING also stars Stellan Skarsgard (Breaking the Waves) as Lambeau, the professor who brings Will and Sean together; Ben Affleck (CHASING AMY) as Will's best friend Chuckie, and Minnie Driver (Grosse Pointe Blank, Sleepers) as Skylar, the young Harvard girl who catches his eye, and maybe even his heart.
