Matt Damon plays mathematics genius with attitude. Robin Williams as his analyst comes to the rescue. Oscar winning screen play.

"Goodness me, a moment of cinematic excellence dressed up as a normal everyday soap. Wonderful. If I ever see the DVD in an under $5 rack I will buy it in a trice!"

"Mathematical proof this, bitch."

"So, I took my non recurring string theory droplet thingie and put it in my equation, like, there, and then I added in a constant, there, dropped in a Boyles law squared to power 53, there, and I got ? Have you any idea? I haven't? Sorry sir, it's about that time the dog took over."

"String theory is as broad as it is long."

"There are more f-words in this movie than in the Exorcist. Thankfully there is not as much projectile vomit."

"Robin Williams has aged to perfection. No nano nano's anywhere in this outing - thank goodness he outgrew all that, although we are still not 100% sure he doesn't still sleep upside down or get his wisdom from that man of mystery, Orson. Still, nevertheless I'm a fan as long as he continues NOT wearing those all in one suits of which he used to be so fond."

"I cried and cried and cried. Then I stopped, took a shower, fixed a snack and then cried until all my excess water was expunged from my body. I lost 28 pounds in one night and my ankles are half the size before I saw this movie. I recommend it to weight watchers everywhere."

"Robin Williams is the king of therapists. If Kelsey ever retires he should take over in Fraiser."

Maths genius (Will Hunting) has past life baggage to handle, starts out in movie hanging out with underachiever friends.

He has a job as a janitor at a university where he solves equations put out for students to solve.

Is incarcerated for assaulting a police officer but is let out on bail by Professor Lambeau who had noticed his genius. The terms of bail state he must see a therapist.

After three gloriously failed attempts to break through to Will, a character played by Robin Williams (Sean) comes along. He breaks through to Will in eventually very emotional therapy sessions, in which Sean's character too is changed.

During counseling Will falls in love with Skylar a rich intelligent young thing. She moves university to LA and asks Will to come with her. He initially says no.

Movie ends: Will riding off into the sunset to live with her. Lives of Will and Sean changed forever.

A veritable cornucopia of mathematical excellence interspersed with past life recollections of the abusey-kind. The performances remind one of how one would have reacted, all those years ago in ones street fighting youth, to a kindly soul of the Mr Williams type, coming along to cool ones young punk head with such wisdom one never realized actually existed in this firmament. As if life is being translated into English for the first time after a lifetime of bookey-study, and the world that emerges is truly impressive in a well stocked Supermarket kind of way.

Failing that just look at Damon's pecs, a triumph of young flesh on the big screen.

Yes, Johnny Bravo is to play Will Hunting in a math special.

Yes, a pleasing amount of boinking, a la Minnie Driver, who provides a necessary interest l'amour with a gob full of lovely white teeth.

A few jokes in therapy and in the bars. Minnie, wash your mouth out with soap and Guinness.

One of the proofs is wrong. (The left triangle is too big).

Cats love this movie and will purr all the way through.

Dogs will look for the stick and, not finding one, will violently snap at the tail of the cat, drawing blood.

Mice will run maniacally round in their wheel, but if it is broken they will try to fix it with their little noses.

Annoyingly, for f-word connoisseurs, they tend to drop the g in f-wording. F-wordin' this f-wordin' that. A small annoyance for the purists but do not let this put you off, their hearts are in the right place.

Lots of formulae on blackboards and one spidery drawing on a napkin, but it is thankfully assumed the audience is not interested in the finer details of the math and this subject is relegated to nice easy scenes such as "professor you have a great mind but YOU ARE WRONG" rather than any attempt at explanation.

A magnificent movie. Truly deserving of its Oscar for original screen play.

The "it's not your fault" scene is of all time movie great caliber.