VINTAGE FILM Good Will Hunting

At the VFA, we don’t understand adjacency matrices, but we do have a logarithm that says Good Will Hunting may be the best film of 1997. The first draft of this script was written for a class assignment at Harvard by a young, handsome genius named Matt Damon. He left school early to pursue his dreams in California, but eventually (talk about extra credit), the script sold for $775,000 and won the Oscar for best screenplay. Co-written and co-starring Damon’s best friend Ben Affleck, who deserves an honorary degree for playing, in a major stretch, the one who’s not so bright.