Good Will Hunting Blu-ray delivers stunning video and great audio in this exceptional Blu-ray release
Although gifted with a brilliant mind, a young South Boston man can only find work as a janitor. When his lack of anger management lands him in court yet again, a judge orders the man to see a psychologist, who tries to help him find direction in his life.
For more about Good Will Hunting and the Good Will Hunting Blu-ray release, see the Good Will Hunting Blu-ray Review published by Jeffrey Kauffman on August 24, 2012 where this Blu-ray release scored 4.5 out of 5.
Not even a year after Lionsgate first released Good Will Hunting on Blu-ray, they've deigned to go back to the well,
releasing the film again with over an hour of new supplementary content, but (according to information provided by
Lionsgate's PR firm) with the same transfer as before, and minus
the digital copy that graced the first release. For my thoughts on the film and the video and audio quality, as well as the
original slate of supplements which are also ported over to this release, as well as to see screencaps from the film, please
click on this link:
See the link above for information on the previously released supplements which have been ported over to this 15th
Anniversary release. This version also contains this new material:
Reflecting on a Journey: Good Will Hunting 15 Years Later (HD; 1:02:14) is comprised of four
featurettes: The Era of Good Will Hunting, Cast and Crew Spotlight, Academy Awards: A Winning Season and Life
Goes On. This is a really compelling, in depth piece that features a lot of first person reminiscences (it's a bit odd to hear
Damon and Affleck hold up Sylvester Stallone as their model for a star who had written and starred in his own films). They
talk about "reverse engineering" the story to fit their needs as actors early in their careers. Gus Van Sant talks about his
long relationship with Damon and how much he had grown by the time he made the film. There's a brief remembrance of
how some people claimed that Affleck and Damon didn't actually write the film and the fake brouhaha when they won the
Oscar. There's a little wistfulness in the section on how everyone's lives have changed since the film came out. It must be
stated that Robin Williams has really aged quite a bit—suddenly, he's looking surprisingly old and maybe even a little frail,
perhaps due to some of his publicized health issues.
Matt Damon Remembers Good Will Hunting (HD; 16:46). Damon talks about the huge impact the film
had on his life and career, mentioning how it took him three or four years after the film just to "calm down" after how much
his life exploded after its release.
Does Good Will Hunting deserve a double dip? That's no doubt going to depend on whether or not you are a big
fan of the film. There's no denying that the new supplementary material is excellent, especially the four part featurette, but
the truth is the first release had great supplements as well. One way or the other, as I mentioned in my review of the first
release, the film has held up surprisingly well and remains as touching as it was when it first came out. Double dippers will
have to weigh their options, but for those who have never bought the film previously, this is obviously the version to get.
Highly recommended.
Lionsgate Home Entertainment will release a 15th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray of Good Will Hunting this summer. Good Will Hunting tells the story of Will Hunting (Matt Damon, The Bourne Identity), a blue-collar janitor whose hidden mathematical brilliance forces ...
