“Good Will Hunting” Trivia | New England By the Numbers

20th 
Anniversary that Good Will Hunting marks this year (released 12/5/97)

46
Combined ages of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck when they sold their screenplay

40
Estimated number of pages in Damon’s one-act play, written at Harvard, that inspired the screenplay

one
Number of movie scenes taken verbatim from Damon’s play (the scene in which Will meets psychologist Sean Maguire)

$600,000
Amount that Damon and Affleck each received for the script

$10,000
Amount that Damon and Affleck paid the friend who came up with the movie’s title

Four
Number of years between the script’s completion and the first day of shooting

nine
Number of weeks spent filming Good Will Hunting

2
Number of Oscar wins (best supporting actor and best screenplay)

$10 million
Amount Good Will Hunting cost to make

$226 million
Amount it has grossed to date