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Movies Releasing: the Week of December 05, 1997 |
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Good Will Hunting |
Réalisateur : Gus Van Sant. |
Starring : Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Robin Williams, Casey Affleck, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård, Cole Hauser. |
Genre : Comedy, Drama. |
Official Website : Not Available |
Plot Summary : |
Robin Williams won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck nabbed one for Best Original Screenplay, but the feel-good hit Good Will Hunting triumphs because of its gifted director, Gus Van Sant. The unconventional director (My Own Private Idaho, Drugstore Cowboy) saves a script marred by vanity and clunky character development by yanking soulful, touching performances out of his entire cast (amazingly, even one by Williams that's relatively schtick-free). Van Sant pulls off the equivalent of what George Cukor accomplished for women's melodrama in the '30s and '40s: He's crafted an intelligent, unabashedly emotional male weepie about men trying to find inner-wisdom.
Matt Damon stars as Will Hunting, a closet math genius who ignores his gift in favor of nightly boozing and fighting with South Boston buddies (co-writer Ben Affleck among them). While working as a university janitor, he solves an impossible calculus problem scribbled on a hallway black... |
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