And it is only through breaking through to those scars and sharing some of his own that McGuire, the counselor, is able to help him. His reluctance to embrace the opportunity at MIT is based partly on class pride (it would be betraying his buddies and the old neighborhood) and partly on old psychic wounds. It would be an insult to us if you're still around here in 20 years.” True, but Will doesn't see it that way.

And one is Chuckie ( Ben Affleck), Will's friend since childhood, who tells him: “You're sitting on a winning lottery ticket. One is Skylar ( Minnie Driver), a British student at Harvard, who falls in love with Will and tries to help him. One is Sean McGuire ( Robin Williams), Lambeau's college roommate, now a community college professor who has messed up his own life, but is a gifted counselor. One is Lambeau, who gets probation for Will with a promise that he'll find him help and counseling. “Good Will Hunting” is the story of how this kid's life edges toward self-destruction and how four people try to haul him back. He sees romance in being an honest bricklayer, but none in being a professor of mathematics-maybe because bricklaying is work, and, for him, math isn't. He sees nothing wrong with spending his whole life hanging out with his friends, quaffing a few beers, holding down a blue-collar job. Will also hammers on the cops a little and is jailed.

But before that can take place, Will and some buddies are cruising the old neighborhood and beat up a guy. Lambeau wants to help Will, to get him into school, maybe, or collaborate with him. A few days later, Lambeau catches Will Hunting (Damon) at the board and realizes he's the author-a natural mathematical genius who can intuitively see through the thorniest problems. Who claims credit? None of the students does.

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