Good Will Hunting (1997)

Psychological drama well in the beginning of Ben Aflleck and Matt Damon in their careers - they star (with Matt in the role of the protagonist) and wrote the script together. The director was Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy). The movie tells a story about a irish-descendant boy in Boston that works as janitor in a mathematics faculty, and it is a self-taught genius, with a troubled past and present - some mathematical riddles are left by the head of the chair in the faculty (Skarsgård) and mysteriously solved by night. Catching up with Matt Damon…

Gus Van Sant's Good Will Hunting is a film that could have easily collapsed under the weight of its own ambitions: a genius janitor, a traumatized savant, a therapeutic breakthrough that changes everything. But it doesn't collapse. It works, and it works beautifully, because everyone involved understood that the story required restraint, intelligence, and performances grounded in something real. What Matt Damon and Ben Affleck achieved with their screenplay is remarkable, not just for two young actors writing their own breakout roles, but for the care…

A very good film, but with some flaws and problems that deserve attention. This film is about a boy from Boston, who comes from very poor backgrounds, but who has a gift for mathematics, easily solving theorems and advanced problems that leave Harvard professors unanswered. He is discovered after solving one, at night and without telling anyone, and one of the professors at the university decides to help him be someone and make use of his gift. The problem is that he doesn't want to, he's not able to trust anyone, and he's seriously stuck with justice.…