When Matt Damon and Ben Affleck pitched the screenplay for Good Will Hunting, they were essentially unknowns in the movie business. Both had been acting for several years, but neither was getting ...

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Gus Van Sant’s 1997 film, Good Will Hunting, undoubtedly does a lot of things right. It’s a movie that, I would argue, is universally loved—a movie even some of the harshest critics, otherwise known ...