Even if your heart is made out of stone, it will still melt by this terrific coming of age tale. One of kind! Deservedly Oscar winner!

Rating: 9/10 (16 January 2020)

Hadnt seen this movie in decades and I remembered it as a somewhat cheesy, sentimental story, how wrong my memory was though, because this movie is without a doubt a blokes movie. Not cheesy at all. But is simultaneously quite touching, uplifting and most of all TRUE to LIFE. Terrific true to life dialogues! Really magnificent.
This movie was Matt Damon's and Ben Affleck's SUDDEN rise to fame. They WROTE the damn thing, at their very young age. Please do watch the Oscar speech on youtube, these two young guys held when they won the Oscar for best screenplay. It's vivacious and hilarious!
The story is simple: Matt Damon is a super smart whizzkid, one of the smartest in the world, but emotionally he is a messed up kid, because of his coldhearted upbringing as an orphan. The brilliance of this story is the bond he gets with psychiatrist Robin Williams, who for the first time ever, teaches the vulnerable Matt Damon how to really love someone...May sound corny, but it definitely isnt. This is a blokes movie, which women would love as well.
What a brilliant coming of age tale! Just so profoundly touching, that I got all teary eyed at the end and I am not quickly moved by a movie whatsoever. It is not cheesy or sentimental though. That's the great thing about this story: it's a guys tale what it's like to be a guy, who is tough and cool, but who is unable to truly love someone...