MOVIE REVIEW

Good Will Hunting / 1997

Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them.

8.2 / 10 (13,737 votes)

127 minutes

DIRECTOR Gus Van Sant

WRITERS Matt Damon, Ben Affleck

CAST Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård, Minnie Driver, Casey Affleck, Cole Hauser, Vik Sahay, John Mighton, Rachel Majorowski, Colleen McCauley, Matt Mercier, Ralph St. George, Rob Lynds, Dan Washington

PRODUCTION Lawrence Bender Productions, Be Gentlemen Limited Partnership, Miramax

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REVIEW & SYNOPSIS

Sinopsis

Good Will Hunting adalah sebuah Drama yang dirilis pada tahun 1997. “Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them.” Film ini disutradarai oleh Gus Van Sant dan dibintangi oleh Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård, Minnie Driver.

Good Will Hunting menghadirkan cerita yang mendalam tentang perjuangan, konflik, dan resolusi yang memukau. Dengan alur yang terstruktur dengan baik, film ini berhasil membawa penonton dalam pengalaman sinematik yang tak terlupakan.

Dari segi teknis, Good Will Hunting menawarkan sinematografi yang memanjakan mata, tata suara yang imersif, serta akting yang meyakinkan dari para pemerannya.

Secara keseluruhan, Good Will Hunting adalah Drama yang layak masuk dalam daftar tontonan Anda. Film ini tidak hanya menghibur tetapi juga memberikan pesan moral yang mendalam.

Last Updated: April 28, 2026

COMMUNITY REVIEWS FROM TMDB

tmdb40011370 8/10

November 24, 2019

Will Hunting, is a working class 20 year old mathematical genius, and yet chooses to shun a university education, preferring instead to be a janitor at Harvard university. At a social level he is headstrong, arrogant, likes getting into fights as well as ending up in police cells for his regular anti-social behaviour. Despite having friends, they are not shining beacons leading him into a better light. He is happy with his lot, shuns commitment and his best form of defence is attack both physically and verbally against those who want to impose their will on him for better or...

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r96sk 9/10

September 12, 2022

So great! 'Good Will Hunting' is a film I had heard many a great thing about but had never actually seen it so didn't know anything about the plot - so much so that I genuinely thought it was about the good will of hunting or something... and certainly not about a character named Will Hunting! The poster makes it look like a film of that sort, in my defence. I also didn't realise, aside from the lead two, that the cast list was so stacked until the credits came up at the start. The names didn't let me down...

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CinemaSerf 7/10

July 24, 2023

"Will" (Matt Damon) is a rudderless character who works as a caretaker. He's an attitudinal pain in the neck whom, aside from his best friend "Chuckie" (Ben Affleck), is pretty much shunned by everyone. "Professor Lambeau" (Stellan Skarsgård) spots some potential in this wayward lad, especially when he realises that he has an amazing ability to solve mathematical problems. To that end he sends him to see the eccentric psychologist "Sean" (Robin Williams) who proves remarkably adept at cutting down the young man's defences and at beginning to rebuild the character of the man in a more positive and life-affirming...

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Filipe Manuel Neto 9/10

August 13, 2023

**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. Therefore, he will...

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BornKnight 8/10

January 2, 2024

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 character Will he can...

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badelf 9/10

May 17, 2026

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 they took to make the therapy at the film's center feel authentic. Van Sant's...

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