Following its 1997 release, the Oscar-winning film catapulted costars and co-writers Ben Affleck and Matt Damon to stardom

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Gus Van Sant’s 1997 film, Good Will Hunting, undoubtedly does a lot of things right. It’s a movie that, I would argue, is universally loved—a movie even some of the harshest critics, otherwise known as my dad, can get behind. In fact, despite our ...

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Matt Damon is best known for co-writing and starring in Good Will Hunting, the film that changed the course of his career and turned him and Ben Affleck into Hollywood stars. But according to Damon, the Oscar-winning movie may never have happened if he hadn't missed out on another major role first.

As Matt Damon’s ‘The Odyssey’ dominates theatres, he can’t stop talking about Ben Affleck on the press run. A rewatch of the film that made them both, and why its ideas about friendship, therapy, and class still hold up decades on.