Good Will Hunting (viewed 4/8/08)

We watched this movie last night for the first time in years. Our dear friend Lisa was in town for the night and got to pick our movie selection and came up with this one. I always forget how much I love this movie. It makes you want to be a better person and to do more with your life - or at the very least, to be true to your heart. I love to see the actors in it before they became full of themselves in their Hollywood lives and to sense the depth that can be there for their performances but is less and less so (Mr. Affleck, it is you of whom I speak). I love Robin Williams in this movie. You are comfortable in knowing that there will not be any Good Morning Vietnam ad-lib going on and he is so very intense in his depression. Stellan Skarsgard is one of my favorite token weird dudes. I always forget he was in that great movie Wind and most people know him as Bootstrap from the Pirates series. He was also in The Hunt for Red October for you who are trying to place his face from farther back in time. Minnie Driver is another of my favorites. She and my favorite comedian, Eddie Izzard, have a show called The Riches which is quite good. Minnie has also been fabulous in another great movie, An Ideal Husband. Ahh... Rupert. Also, Grosse Pointe Blank.