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...young Will Hunting. His perfection would be nothing short of irritating and boring. Yet Harvard golden boy Matt Damon sheds layer upon layer of complexity until finally we reach the core of his character near the movie's end. The film itself is nothing particularly exceptional. Director Gus Van Sant prefers a straight up telling of the tale--there's little to distract you from the fable playing out on screen. --Soman S. Chainani...
...film is nothing particularly exceptional, certainly not what you would expect from quirky indie fave Gus Van Sant. Van Sant goes for a straight-up telling of the tale with little to distract you from the heart-stuffed fable playing out on screen. After two hours, the film collapses miserably in the last 15 seconds--indeed, it is the first time in his career that Van Sant has stuck with a happy ending, and it dilutes the rest of the film's impact. Instead of a powerful character study, we're left to ponder a sudden dive into mainstream cheesiness...
Following in the footsteps of his friend Matthew McConaughey, Damon landed the lead in The Rainmaker--a Francis Ford Coppola film. Then, the script which he and his best friend Ben Affleck wrote together, Good Will Hunting, was finally picked up by Mira-max--the brilliant Gus Van Sant signed on to direct soon after. And next summer, Damon will headline in Steven Spielberg's World War II epic Saving Private Ryan...
...gotten to work with Coppola, Van Sant, Spielberg. Anybody else that you really want to work with...
...established director but instead planned to hand it off to Castle Rock partner Andrew Scheinman, whose only previous directing credit was the forgettable 1994 movie Little Big League. The young actors returned their material to the marketplace, where Miramax bought it from Castle Rock. Commitments from director Van Sant and co-star Robin Williams made the project happen the way they always dreamed it would. This also led to an ongoing romance between Damon and his co-star Minnie Driver...