Product ReviewsGood Will Hunting (DVD, 1998, Collectors Series)

Multiple Redemption Provides the Surprises

"Good Will Hunting" is one of the best films of this genre. Redemption films tend to be over-sentimental, over-moralistic, or simply over the top. Thanks to great performances from Robin Williams and Matt Damon, this avoids most of the obvious traps. Gus van Sant directs the film with occasional subtlety and many deft touches. The viewer is never really in doubt about the outcome; it is the multiple redemption that gives the story extra and surprising punch.

Will Hunting, an emotionally challenged mathematical genius from South Boston spends his time drinking, fighting and generally challenging authority wherever he finds it. Perverse vanity cannot prevent him from completing equations displayed as challenges by a professor at MIT. Brought together with a psychiatrist (Robin Williams), he moves from confrontation to passive resistance to acceptance of his own emotions and needs. The interplay between the two provides the emotional backbone to the story, while the interplay of his mathematical facility and his encounters with the professor with the grinding dullness of the jobs he works provides the intellectual to-and-fro. For love interest he uses his mind to attract a girl at Harvard (Minnie Driver) and uses his emotional inadequacy to maintain a distance.

Self discovery at the hands of the psychiatrist is predictable but cleverly presented. His conflicts with authority are deftly drawn; the plot works right through to the final interplays between Will and the conflicting elements of his life.Read full review...

Good Will Hunting

Film that launched Ben Affleck and Matt Damon into the Hollywood elite. Robin Williams gives a stellar performance. The script is perfect

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Great Movie with Williams, Damon, Affleck and Driver!!!

This movie is a collector's item. Love all the actors and actresses in this movie. I love how the directors worked with Matt Damon and turned him into a silent genius who could not handle the attention. And the run in with the Law that lead Matt Damon into the courts was amazing how he could read off the laws and the Constitution. It was amazing how the camera man worked his genius to pull off the facial expressions as these actors played their parts.

It was amazing how they connected Damon to Robin Williams. Williams is a genius of our time. And to put him in charge of Damon and helped him with his demons of the past where he was horribly abused was a tear jerking moment, I shall never forget.

Great Movie......... I bought because where are you ever going to get these Actors in another great movie in this lifetime. Even if they were not on their best acting....... it was still worth having.

I hope to do business with you again.
Thank You so much for your quick response to mail this movie to me.

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Good Will Hunting

This movie is excellent. Drama, humor, brotherhood, and solitude fill this movie. Very well done. I'd seen it numberous times but, all of a sudden, I couldn't find my copy of it anywhere. E-Bay to the rescue. Matt Damon is well suited for this roll. And Ben Affleck, oh, remember when he knew what kind of roles were right for him? He's a tough guy. A goomba. Not a dramatic, humorous, light hearted wuss. Get it together O' Banion. Robin Williams, classic. Taking the turn from comedy to drama was a great move for him. He really made this movie work.
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Good Will Hunting

This movie is excellent. Drama, humor, brotherhood, and solitude fill this movie. Very well done. I'd seen it numberous times but, all of a sudden, I couldn't find my copy of it anywhere. E-Bay to the rescue. Matt Damon is well suited for this roll. And Ben Affleck, oh, remember when he knew what kind of roles were right for him? He's a tough guy. A goomba. Not a dramatic, humorous, light hearted wuss. Get it together O' Banion. Robin Williams, classic. Taking the turn from comedy to drama was a great move for him. He really made this movie work.
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Great movie.

This is one of those movies that will be great forever I'm sure. It's such a great combonation of funny, heart warming, inspirational, and just plain smart. Its got a little bit of everything, including an adorable quirky romance. The cast has great chemistry, and Robin Williams plays such an amazing role. I love the way this movie captures "Will's" emotions. His confusion, depression, joy, love and loylty. It's amazing. A must have for any movie collection.
My favorite scene is when Will is outside the window, looking in on the cocky college student that he had just verbally dueled (and won of course) and he says "Do you like apples?" The guy inside thinks he's lost his mind or something, but answers "Yes" so Will slams a napkin up against the glass, with skyla's (the girl that the cocky guy was trying to impress) number on it and he says "Well I got her number, How do you like those apples?" Too funny. Total classic scene. Love it.Read full review...

Guy from slums with gangs is a mathematical genius...has love and trust issues... overcomes with help.

Good story, good casting, well acted

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Very enjoyable movie

A great combination.... Robin Williams and Matt Damon. Even though this was an older movie, we had not seen it and enjoyed it very much.

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Thanks, I'll enjoy this

I like DVDs. I buy a lot of them. I ALWAYS enjoy watching the DVD over again. I never resell them, just put them in my library for another day. I hope you enjoy your DVDs as much as I do.

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dvd skips...half way thru film it started to skip..

couldn't remember where I bought it...I bought so much during the holidays..
yes your dvd skips...so glad you sent me this review, thank you...can I return it? I would love to get one that works....about half way thru we had to stop watching because the DVD started to skip....tried and tried and we figuered it was the DVD that was defected because all of our other movies we watch are fine.
Can you send me you address to send it back and hopefully you can send me a new one.
thank you...
i was under the asumption that it was new..if it was it was just defected.
Susie Hernandez
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