When Miramax first started looking for directors to take on Good Will Hunting, they considered working with heavy-hitters like Mel Gibson, Steven Soderbergh, and Michael Mann. Affleck and Damon als...

Good Will Hunting was the first screenplay that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck ever pitched to Hollywood. And as far as first tries go, they did a pretty insanely, amazingly good job. After selling the...

At first, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck (it's so sad that there's no way to fuse their names gracefully—"Men" and "Batt" both sound just… bizarre) wanted to make a movie about a super intelligent...

Lots of Toronto, Lots of ImprovEven though Matt Damon and Ben Affleck insisted on keeping the movie set in Boston, many of the scenes were actually shot in Toronto, Canada. (Gasp!) For example, Har...

Like so many awesome films from the 1990s, Good Will Hunting had its main score written by legendary composer Danny Elfman. And as with any Elfman score, the music has a real sentimental tinge to...

Good Will Hunting enjoys one of the most devoted group of fans you'll ever meet, and a lot of this has to do with how hard people were hit by the suicide of Robin Williams back in August of 2014. (...