Good Will Hunting · written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck · 1997

Will speed-reads a psychology book and turns a self-help theory into a joke.

Scene 33 of 127 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Act oneAct two

Begins 34 min into a 2:11 film

The story so farBefore scene 33

When MIT professor Gerald Lambeau discovers that janitor Will Hunting is a gifted mathematician, a court deal lets Will work with Lambeau and therapist Sean Maguire; Will must risk intimacy and choose a life beyond the defenses that have kept him safe.

Scenes 1–16
Will is a brilliant janitor, fiercely loyal to his South Boston friends and protected by routine.
Scenes 17–31
Lambeau's discovery and the court deal confront Will with an ability and a future he cannot keep hidden.
Just before
Scene 30
Will phones Skylar from the jail, reaching toward a connection beyond his friends.
Scene 31
Lambeau offers to intervene if Will studies mathematics and attends therapy; Will accepts.
Scene 32
At Funland, the friends wrestle and joke while Will remains at ease with them.
Scene 33
This scene

33INT. WILL'S APARTMENT -- NIGHT

Will sits alone in his one room apartment, reading. A closer look reveals he is reading a self-help PSYCHOLOGY BOOK. Will is flipping through the book at about a page per second. He shakes his head and smiles. Upon finishing the book, he throws it in a nearby WASTEBASKET. Push in on the back of the book where a SMILING PSYCHOLOGIST is pictured.