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

Sean sits alone on his rooftop, drinking and grieving.

Scene 5 of 127 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 6 min into a 2:11 film

The story so farBefore scene 5

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.

Just before
Scene 2
At the L Street bar, Chuckie's grotesque story sets the friends' teasing rhythm and Will's place in the group.
Scene 3
At MIT, Lambeau gives graduate students a difficult theorem and leaves it on the board.
Scene 4
At Funland, Will's confidence and competence surface as the friends compete at the batting cages.
Scene 5
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5EXT. SOUTH BOSTON ROOFTOP -- EARLY AFTERNOON

SEAN McGUIRE (52) sits, FORMALLY DRESSED, on the roof of his apartment building in a beat-up lawn chair. Well-built and fairly muscular, he stares blankly out over the city.

On his lap rests an open invitation that reads "M.I.T. CLASS OF '67 REUNION."

While the morning is quiet and Sean sits serenely, there is a look about his that tells us he has faced hard times. This is a man who fought his way through life. On his lonely stare we:

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