good-will-hunting心灵捕手.doc

Good Will Hunting (Drama/Romance) (1997) ? 1999 by Raymond Weschler Major Characters Will HuntingMatt Damon A troubled young janitor from Boston who is both an orphan and an amazing genius with a photographic memory. Gerald LambeauStellan Skarsgard An extremely intelligent Math professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who discovers how brilliant Will really is. Sean MaGuireRobin Williams A psychologist and old friend of Lambeau who agrees to try and help Will. ChuckieBen Affleck Wills best friend from childhood, who pushes him to use his genius to get a better life. SkylarMinnie Driver A British science student at Harvard University who falls in love with Will. MorganCasey Affleck A good friend of Will and Chuckie. BillyCole Hauser Another good friend of Will and Chuckie. Plot Summary Will Hunting is a 20 year old Boston janitor who works cleaning classrooms at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the best and most famous universities in the world. He is an orphan who grew up in various foster homes, where he had been physically abused as a child. He is also an extraordinary mathematical genius with a photographic memory, who likes to solve math problems that an MIT professor writes on a hallway chalkboard. For the students, these problems are too difficult to solve, but for Will, theyre easy! One day, Professor Lambeau sees Will writing the answer to a problem on the chalkboard, but Will runs away before they can talk. Lambeau soon discovers many disturbing things about Will, including the fact that he is stuck in jail for having just physically attacked someone who had beaten him up many years earlier. Lambeau arranges with a judge to keep Will out of jail, as long as Will agrees to work on mathematical problems and to get psychological help. Will agrees to these conditions. Will is too difficult a patient for the various psychologists that Lambeau asks to help, but eventually Lambe