Well crafted film that essentially glorifies white-trash.

Rating: 6/10 (13 September 2000)

Well acted and written film. However, it follows in a long tradition in Western culture of romanticizing white-trash. The recipe is usually the same. Take a working class loser, make him very handsome, brave, charming, and extremely intelligent, then contrast him against well educated people who are shown to be sexually frustrated, neurotic, and otherwise unhappy, and you create a white-trash hero. "Good Will Hunting" plays this game very effectively. By the end of the film it has you believing the classic lie that education is unnecessary and all that matters in life is that you get the girl. Still, a good film at what it tries to do. However, one should watch an episode of Jerry Springer after seeing this film to remember what uneducated white-trash are really like.