Good Will Hunting Themes

On the surface, Good Will Hunting is just a story about a really smart kid who doesn't know what he wants to do with his life. But everyone knows the surface is bo-ring.A gift like Will's takes a l...

Understatement of the century: Will Hunting doesn't have a very good history when it comes to love. For starters, he was abandoned as a child by the ones who were supposed to love him most—his pa...

Will might know almost everything about chemistry and math, but he hasn't passed the third grade when it comes to living as an emotionally healthy adult. In fact, Good Will Hunting is basically the...

Good Will Hunting's Will is the classic self-educated dude, or an autodidact if you want to be really fancy about it. But his biggest problem is that all of his good education is intellectual and a...

It's fair to say that Good Will Hunting's protagonist has a deep-seated dissatisfaction with his life. He might like to think that he's totally fulfilled by his life of drinking and fighting. But i...