In this episode Mark talks about one of his favourite films: the 1997 American drama film "Good Will Hunting" directed by Gus Van Sant. Written and starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, the film follows 20-year-old Will Hunting (played by Matt Damon) who while working as a janitor at MIT is discovered to be a self-taught genius after he anonymously solves a difficult mathematical problem posted by Professor Gerald Lambeau (played by Stellan Skarsgård) as a challenge for his graduate students. However, even though Will Hunting is an unrecognised genius, he mostly spends his time drinking with his friends Chuckie (played by Ben Affleck), Billy (played by Cole Hauser), and Morgan (played by Casey Affleck). However, after Will is arrested by the police, following a fight with a gang led by someone who used to bully Will as a child, Professor Lambeau arranges for Will to avoid jail time if he agrees to study mathematics with Professor Lambeau and also participate in therapy sessions twice a week with a therapist - and after several failed attempts to find the right therapist for Will, in desperation, Professor Lambeau calls upon his old college roommate, Dr. Sean Maguire (played by Robin Williams), who now teaches psychology at Bunker Hill Community - who grew up in the same area of South Boston as Will, and who was also subjected to the same psychological and physical abuse as Will was by their respective adoptive parents - to meet and to work with Will through the psychological trauma that still plagues him. While at bar one night with his friends, Will meets Skylar (played by Minnie Driver), a British woman about to graduate from Harvard College and planning to attend medical school at Stanford, who he is immediately drawn to, and quite quickly both Will and Skylar become a couple - and so deep is their love for one another that Skylar asks Will to accompany her and spend the rest of his life with her, which unsettles Will in ways that he cannot immediately admit. Over the course of the film Will's genius is revealed to eclipse even that of Professor Lambeau - and at the same time the more that Will and Sean spend time with one another the more that their friendship develops and grows into becoming one that influences and reveals who they are, who they want to be, what they want to do in the next stages of their life, and also who they want to be with and where.
