![]() The film, which met with praise from both critics and audiences, won two Academy Awards in March 1998. ![]() Fields Medal recipient and MIT professor Gerald Lambeau (Stellan Skarsgard) takes notice, and, when Will is soon arrested after he assaults a police officer, the judge cuts him a deal: Will won’t be put behind bars, provided he works with Lambeau and meets weekly with a therapist. “Good Will Hunting” picks up when Will, who works as a janitor at MIT, effortlessly solves a difficult equation on a blackboard at the school. “It’s something that’s talked about, and it’s part of the cultural background that people are introduced to coming here,” D’Agostino said. Some schools even screen the movie as part of welcome-week events, as Harvard senior Silvano D’Agostino remembers the university doing his freshman year. Along with hordes of tourists, students continue to visit the L Street Tavern, a Southie bar featured in the film. ![]() They relate to the emotional hurdles faced by Will Hunting (Damon), a “wicked smart” yet troubled 20-year-old from South Boston. Twenty years after its theatrical release, the film, penned by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, is still wildly popular among college-age Bostonians, who were infants on Dec. “I’d make a new friend and if I found out they hadn’t seen ‘Good Will Hunting,’ we’d have to watch it. “I watched it multiple times freshman year,” said Scott Cameron, a junior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ![]() BOSTON - College students here who haven't seen " Good Will Hunting" are akin to those who despise Dunkin' Donuts. ![]()
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