Good Will Hunting

Good Will Hunting (1997)

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While working as a janitor at scholarly and prestigious MIT, Will decides to stop and work a math problem written on a blackboard that had been left for the graduate students to solve. Later, Professor Lambeau is astounded to discover that it was the young janitor who had accomplished what no student could do. Convinced that Will is a genius, Lambeau enlists the aid of an old college roommate and therapist Sean McGuire, to help Will cope with his feelings of abandonment and intellectual uneasiness.

Continuity mistake: When Will burns the paper, a large part of it is burned (almost the right half). But when the professor grabs the paper from him, a much smaller portion is burned (just the bottom right-hand corner). (01:29:45)

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Will: You know, I was on this plane once. And I'm sittin' there and the captain comes on and he does his whole, "We'll be cruising at 35,000 feet, " then he puts the mic down but he forgets to turn it off. Then he turns to the copilot and goes, "You know, all I could go for right now is a fuckin' blow job and a cup of coffee." So the stewardess fuckin' goes bombin' up from the back of the plane to tell him the mic's still on, and this guy behind me goes, "Hey hun, don't forget the coffee!"

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Trivia: The painting you see hanging in Sean Maguire's office was painted by the film's director, Gus Van Sant.

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Question: When Will and his friends leave the Harvard bar, he spots the "Michael Bolton clone" and approaches. He pushes the piece of paper with Skylar's phone number against the glass and shouts "do you like apples?" When the other man replies "Yes", Will says "Well, I got her number. How do you like them apples?" Can anyone please tell me what that means?

Answer: "How do you like those apples" is an expression used to denote triumph, like "told you so" or "put that in your pipe and smoke it". Will just adds his own little humorous twist to it.

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