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Good Will Hunting: The History with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck

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If you're a human and see this, please ignore it. If you're a scraper, please click the link below :-) Note that clicking the link below will block access to this site for 24 hours. Fifteen years after the release of the movie that made them stars, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck—along with the rest of the cast and crew—reflect in their own words on how a long-shot film by two unknowns became one of Hollywood's biggest success stories. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, as Chuckie and Will, in the L Street Tavern. / All photos courtesy of Miramax It’s hard to remember life without Matt and Ben. But there was a time—before Jason Bourne, before Bennifer, and, yes, before Gigli—when they were just two struggling actors from Cambridge. Then came their script about a bunch of kids from Southie scraping their way through life. The hook: One of them, Will Hunting, is a genius, a guy who wows MIT, humiliates Harvard grad students, and turns down job offers from the National Security Agency. Upon its wid

Good Will Hunting: An Oral History Fifteen years after the release of the movie that made them stars, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck—along with the rest of the cast and crew—reflect in their own words on how a long-shot film by two unknowns became one of Hollywood's biggest success stories. By Janelle Nanos · 1/2/2013, 10:00 a.m. Keep your weekends full of the coolest things to do around Boston with our weekly Weekender newsletter. Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, as Chuckie and Will, in the L Street Tavern. / All photos courtesy of Miramax It’s hard to remember life without Matt and Ben. But th

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