Equal parts love story, coming-of-age struggle, ode to friendship, and therapy session.

Rating: 8/10 (2 July 2010)

A troubled math genius (Matt Damon) working as a janitor tries to turn his life around with the help of a kindly psychologist (Robin Williams).
Good Will Hunting is a cannily packaged self-help story, written by two young stars desperate to get a leg up, and handled smoothly by director Gus Van Sant, with his own sights on the mainstream. It's commercial schmaltz in indie clothing, but it wears it well. The film financially grossed over twenty-two times it's $10,000,000 budget during it's theatrical run and later earned nine Academy Award nominations, two of which it won.