Good Will Hunting
Movie • 1997 • Drama
ReportWill Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau makes a deal to get leniency for him if he will get treatment from therapist Sean Maguire.
This movie contains 21 potentially triggering events.
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TobyF
It is discussed but doesn't actually happen in the film.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Not explicitly shown/said but it is implied that it was an options and might've happened
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BearLizz
Not shown on screen very much, but is a major plot point and is discussed at great length
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Addiction
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characters smoke often and drink but no illegal drugs are used
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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calz
the main characters go to bars periodically and another character mentions their alcoholic father.
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Dog racing is abuse
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there is grey hound racing, this is very unsettling and very triggering to many like myself
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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the bully gets beaten up instead
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ycats333
cops hold some people fighting down to arrest them
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elliottcoka
There's discussion of SA which turns out to be a fake story. It's also treated as a joke.
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Are any hands damaged?
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Knuckles injured when character punches a wall
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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There is a scene where the main character is gripped by the shirt as a threat for a few seconds and then was let go of. He wasn’t losing oxygen but it could be triggering.
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main character is pushed against a wall and held at his neck
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ycats333
several men repetitively punched in the face during a fight scene. don't really see anything but it could be triggering
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Does someone become unconscious?
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the one guy in a fight got punched so much it looks like he blacks out. not shown long
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Is someone stabbed?
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slippydippydoo
Mentions of someone getting stabbed by their foster father
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Children
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Death
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Does someone die?
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MilesGwenStacyMorales
The therapist talks about his wife that had died from Cancer
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Disability
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MilesGwenStacyMorales
Used twice in a conversation describing a group of teens the main character hangs out with
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When Chuckie is telling the story about their uncle, v* is mentioned a couple times. Doesn’t actually happen in the movie though
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Is there farting?
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A whole segment discussing farts, though. It makes sense in context.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Not copaganda but the judge tells the main character that for assaulting an officer (accidentally in the middle of a brawl) he will have to serve jail time
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Is there incarceration?
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ycats333
brief scene in a holding cell
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Does someone have cancer?
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honkycat
the therapist’s wife is said to have died of cancer
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Mental Health
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fairygodmother
the main character pretty clearly suffers from C-PTSD from his childhood.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Main character has a lot of trauma and in one scene becomes distressed, punches the wall out of anger and his partner is frightened
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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r slur used but nothing else similar
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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people swear throughout the film and theres sexual references
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Paranoia
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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intothevcr
Not exactly “man in a dress” but a transphobic joke is made from one cis man to another about a “sex change surgery.”
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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animallover908
the r-slur is used very frequently
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Are there nude scenes?
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you see that a character is shirtless after sleeping with someone but it never goes further than that
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is someone terminally ill?
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slippydippydoo
Mentions of someone having cancer
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Is there blood/gore?
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calz
not a lot, there's a fight scene in the beginning so you see cuts and bruises on their faces.
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