Good Will Hunting
As Sean Maguire
1997 | Drama | 120 min | R
As Sean Maguire
Gus Van Sant
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck
Danny Elfman
December 2, 1997 (Westwood, CA)
December 5, 1997 (limited)
January 9, 1998 (wide)
January 5, 1999 (Region 1 - North America)
January 22, 2001 (Region 2 - UK)
Miramax Films, Lawrence Bensen Productions, Be Gentlemen Limited Partnership
Miramax Films
Sean Maguire
Will Hunting
Chuckie Sullivan
Skylar
Gerald Lambeau
Morgan O'Mally
Will Hunting is a young genius living a rough life in Boston's south end. While being employed as a janitor at a prestigious college in Boston, he's discovered by a Fields Medal-winning professor who eventually tries to get Will to turn his life around. With the help of counselor Sean Maguire, Will begins to realize that there's more to himself than he ever imagined.
The last line of the film, "Son of a bitch, you stole my line," was ad-libbed by Robin.
I thought about what you said to me the other day, about my painting. I stayed up half the night thinking about it, and then something occurred to me and I fell into a deep, peaceful sleep and haven't thought about you since. You know what occurred to me?
No.
You're just a kid. You don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about.
Why, thank you.
It's all right. You've never been out of Boston.
Nope.
If I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written... Michelangelo? You know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the Pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling. I've seen that. If I asked you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus of your personal favorites. You may even have been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. If I asked you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right? "Once more into the breach, dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap and watched him gasp his last breath, looking to you for help. If I asked you about love you'd probably quote me a sonnet, but you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes. Feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you, who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel. To have that love for her be there forever. Through anything, through cancer. You wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in a hospital room for two months holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes that the terms visiting hours don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. I look at you and I don't see an intelligent, confident man: I see a cocky, scared-shitless kid. But you're a genius, Will; no one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine. You ripped my fucking life apart. You're an orphan, right? Do you think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally, I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what? I can't learn anything from you I can't read in some fucking book. Unless you wanna talk about you, who you are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't wanna do that, do you, sport? You're terrified about what you might say. Your move, Chief.
What is that?
This is your file. I have to send it back to the judge for evaluation.
Oh. Hey, you're not gonna fail me, are you? What's it say?
Wanna read it?
Why? Have you had any, uh, experience with that?
20 years of counseling. Yeah, I've seen some pretty awful shit.
I mean, have you had any... experience with that?
Personally?
Yeah.
Yeah, I have.
It sure ain't good.
My father was an alcoholic. Mean fuckin' drunk. He'd come home hammered, looking to wale on somebody. So I'd provoke him so he wouldn't go after my mother and little brother. Interesting nights were when he wore his rings.
He used to just put a--a wrench, a stick and a belt on the table and just say, "Choose."
Well, I gotta go with the belt there then.
I used to go with the wrench.
Why the wrench?
'Cause fuck him, that's why.
Your foster father?
Yeah. So, uh, what is it, like, "Will has an attachment disorder"? Is it all that stuff? "Fear of abandonment"? Is that why I, uh, broke up with Skylar?
I didn't know you had.
Yeah, I did.
You wanna talk about it?
No.
Hey Will, I don't know a lot. You see this? All this shit? It's not your fault.
Yeah.
Look at me, son. It's not your fault.
I know.
It's not your fault.
I know.
No, no, you don't. It's not your fault. Hmm?
I know.
It's not your fault.
All right.
It's not your fault. It's not your fault.
Don't fuck with me.
It's not your fault.
Don't fuck with me, all right?! Don't fuck with me, Sean, not you.
It's not your fault. It's not your fault.
My God. My God, I'm so sorry. My God.
Fuck them, okay?
Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them.
Wildly charismatic. Impossibly brilliant. Totally rebellious. For the first 20 years of his life, Will Hunting has called the shots. Now he's about to meet his match.
This title is available on:
April 14, 1997 - June 1997
Boston, MA
Cambridge, MA
Toronto, ON
Shooting in and around Boston took place at the Bow & Arrow Pub, Bunker Hill Community College, Central Tech High School, Dunster House, Harvard Square, East Fifth Street, West Fifth Street, MIT, the Public Garden at Charles and Beacon, South Boston District Municipal Court, The Tasty, and Woody's L Street Tavern.
Shooting in and around Toronto took place at Central Tech High School, Ontario Specialty Company, the University of Toronto, and Upfront Bar & Grill.
January 9, 1998
February 13, 1998 (Berlin International Film Festival)
February 19, 1998 (wide)
February 20, 1998
February 21, 1998 (limited)
February 27, 1998 (wide)
February 25, 1998
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February 25, 1999
October 1, 2001 (DVD premiere)
Dobrý Will Hunting
Dobri Will Hunting
Buntownik z wyboru
Can dostum
Den enestående Will Hunting
Dobri Vil Hanting
El indomable Will Hunting
En busca del destino
Gênio Indomável
Good Will Hunting - Der gute Will Hunting
Le destin de Will Hunting (French title)
Mente indomable
O Bom Rebelde
O xehoristos Will Hunting
Sippuro Shel Will Hunting
Will Hunting - Genio ribelle
$10,000,000
$138,433,435 (USA)
$87,500,000 (international)
$225,933,435 (total)
Limited: $272,912 (7 theaters)
Wide: $10,261,471 (1,787 theaters)
2,203 theaters
about 21 weeks
Won - 1998 - Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Robin)
Won - 1998 - Best Original Screenplay
Nom - 1998 - Best Picture
Nom - 1998 - Best Actor
Nom - 1998 - Best Director
Nom - 1998 - Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Minnie Driver)
Nom - 1998 - Best Film Editing
Nom - 1998 - Best Original Dramatic Score
Nom - 1998 - Best Song
Won - 1998 - Best Screenplay
Nom - 1998 - Best Supporting Actor (Robin)
Nom - 1998 - Best Actor in a Dramatic Picture
Nom - 1998 - Best Dramatic Picture
Won - 1998 - Best Single Achievement
