This is an old movie, but I just got it on Blu-Ray and watched it for the first time.
The best part was the Damon/Affleck script, the Boston-accurate accents and slang, and the friendship of Damon and Affleck, which comes through both on and off-screen.
Basically, Will Hunting (Damon) is a math genius and has both wit and encyclopedic knowledge to spare, but he’s unmotivated, and all he wants to do is be a janitor, pick fights, and bar-hop with his friend (Affleck). He is discovered by Gerald Lambeau (Skarsgard), an MIT professor, who is forced to bring Will Hunting to his community college psych professor Sean Maguire (Williams) because Will keeps being unmotivated and has a tendency to antagonize everyone. So, Maguire is faced with the daunting task of finding out what is wrong with a young man who seemingly has a snarky response to everything. Meanwhile, Will falls in love with Skylar (Driver), a Harvard pre-med student, but he is reluctant to take the relationship further.
The summary sounds like a hokey inspirational movie, but director Gus Van Sant really used all of his actors well to create a rather sharp-edged story of an imperfect, wounded genius.
Rating: I think this made my top ten.
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