Good Will Hunting
Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them.
Country
Genre
Budget
$10 000 000
Box office
$225 933 435
Director
Actors
Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård, Minnie Driver, Casey Affleck, Cole Hauser, Vik Sahay, John Mighton, Rachel Majorowski
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Composer
Artist
Missy Stewart
Audition
Suzanne Crowley, Billy Hopkins, Kerry Barden
Editing
Short description
Will Hunting is a headstrong, working-class genius who is failing the lessons of life. After one too many run-ins with the law, Will's last chance is a psychology professor, who might be the only man who can reach him.
What's left behind the scenes
- Following Robin Williams' death in 2014, the bench where he conversed with Matt Damon's character in the film became a place of pilgrimage; people left flowers and other tributes there.
- In the scene with Robin Williams (1951-2014) and Matt Damon on a park bench, it seems as if there is no one else nearby. However, Williams was a hugely popular actor, and at one point, over 3,000 people were watching the filming.
- After Robin Williams' death in 2014, the bench where he conversed with Matt Damon's character in the film became a place of pilgrimage; people left flowers and other tributes there.
- The painting that can be seen in Robin Williams's office was painted by Gus Van Sant.
- This is how Matt Damon and Ben Affleck scouted for a film company: on page 60 of the script, they inserted an erotic scene involving Will and Chuckie—a scene that was clearly out of place—and began pitching the script to major studios. No one they spoke with at those studios even mentioned the scene. Only Harvey Weinstein from Miramax brought it up, asking what that completely out-of-place scene was doing there. Damon and Affleck explained that this was how they determined which studios had actually read the script and which had not.
- Robin Williams' last line in the film ("Good Will Hunting" - he also stole my line) was improvised.
- In the scene with Robin Williams (1951-2014) and Matt Damon on the park bench, it seems as though there is no one else around. However, Williams was an incredibly popular actor, and at one point, over 3,000 people were watching the filming.
- The painting seen in the office of Robin Williams' character was painted by Gus Van Sant.
- On the construction site, when Will and Chuckie are talking, at the end of the conversation Chuckie is holding a beer in his right hand, and in the next shot in his left.
- A significant portion of Casey's lines were improvised. Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, and director Gus Van Sant later admitted that these lines were much funnier than the ones they had prepared for Casey.
- Robin Williams' final line in the film ("Son of a bitch. He stole my line") was improvised.
- At the very beginning of the film, Professor Lambeau writes on a chalkboard and lowers it; several shots later, the chalkboard is raised, and then in a close-up we see it lowered again.
- In his fifth year at Harvard, Matt Damon studied dramaturgy. One of the assignments was to write a one-act play; it was this play that, with the help of Ben Affleck, subsequently turned into this film.
- This is how Matt Damon and Ben Affleck scouted for a film company: they inserted an erotic scene involving Will and Chuck on page 60 of the script, a scene that was clearly out of place, and began pitching the script to major studios. None of those they spoke to at these studios even mentioned the scene. Only Harvey Weinstein from Miramax mentioned it and asked what it was doing there, being completely out of place. Damon and Affleck explained that they were using it to determine which studios had actually read the script and which hadn't.
- During his fifth year at Harvard, Matt Damon studied playwriting. One of the assignments was to write a one-act play; with the help of Ben Affleck, this play eventually evolved into the film.
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