Sean Maguire, his college roommate, who now teaches psychology at Bunker Hill Community College. Will tentatively agrees, but treats his therapists with mockery. He arranges for him to avoid jail time if he agrees to study mathematics under Lambeau's supervision and participate in psychotherapy sessions. Lambeau sits in on his court appearance and watches Will defend himself. Will is arrested after he attacks a responding police officer. The next day, Will and his friends fight a gang that contains a member who used to bully Will as a child. At a bar, Will meets Skylar, a British woman about to graduate from Harvard College, who plans on attending medical school at Stanford. As a challenge to the unknown genius, Lambeau posts an even more difficult problem he later catches Will writing the solution on the blackboard late at night, but initially thinks Will is vandalizing it and chases him off. When Professor Gerald Lambeau posts a difficult combinatorial mathematics problem on a blackboard as a challenge for his graduate students, Will solves the problem anonymously, stunning both the students and Lambeau. He works as a janitor at MIT and spends his free time drinking with his friends Chuckie, Billy, and Morgan. Twenty-year-old Will Hunting of South Boston is a natural genius who is self-taught and been recently paroled from jail. In 2014, it was ranked at number 53 in The Hollywood Reporter 's '100 Favorite Films' list. At the 70th Academy Awards, it received nominations in nine categories, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won in two: Best Supporting Actor for Williams and Best Original Screenplay for Affleck and Damon. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed over $225 million during its theatrical run against a $10 million budget. It stars Robin Williams, Damon, Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård and Minnie Driver.

Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American psychological drama film directed by Gus Van Sant, and written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

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