Therapy helps a working-class genius fulfill his potential in a movie that should be dedicated to the guidance counselors of America. Will Hunting (Matt Damon) is an angry young man whose freakish mathematical brilliance is taking him absolutely
nowhere: He works as a janitor at MIT and is getting into increasingly serious trouble with the neighborhood jerks. A bloody street brawl lands Will in front of a judge who sees no reason not to throw his smart ass in jail, but fate intervenes in the form of snotty MIT math prof Lambeau (Stellan
Skarsgard), who's gotten wind of Will's intelligence. To keep him out of jail, Lambeau has to get the defiant and extremely diffic...
Released:
1997
Rated:
R
Length:
122 mins