

Good Will Hunting
Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them.
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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $10M
- Box office
- $225.9M
- Language
- English
- boston, massachusetts
- mathematics
- genius
- male friendship
- flashback
- psychologist
- janitor
- dating
- courtroom
- group of friends
- southie
- college professor
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United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereRWestwood, California2 Dec 1997
- Theatrical (limited)R5 Dec 1997
- TheatricalR9 Jan 1998
- PhysicalRDVD8 Dec 1998
- PhysicalRBlu-ray 30 Aug 2011
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical156 Mar 1998
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM12 Mar 1998
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1220 Feb 1998
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical12+12 Nov 1998
- PhysicalDVD, FilmX10 May 2007
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical116 Mar 1998
EstoniaEE
- Theatrical3 Jul 1998
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1227 Feb 1998
FranceFR
- TheatricalU4 Mar 1998
- TVTP6ter30 May 2026
GermanyDE
- Premiere12Berlin International Film Festival12 Feb 1998
- Theatrical1219 Feb 1998
GreeceGR
- Theatrical1230 Apr 1998
HungaryHU
- Theatrical1825 Feb 1999
Frequently asked questions
Good Will Hunting was released on 5 December 1997.
Audience reviews
6- T8/10
tmdb40011370
11/24/2019
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 …
- R9/10
r96sk
9/12/2022
So great! <em>'Good Will Hunting'</em> 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 t…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
7/24/2023
"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 eccentri…
- F9/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
8/13/2023
**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 b…
- B8/10
BornKnight
1/2/2024
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 mathemat…
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