Good Will Hunting (1997)Movie Script

WILL:

So wait a minute. The Red Sox haven't won a World Series since nineteen eighteen, you slept out for tickets, games gonna start in twenty minutes, in walks a girl you never seen before, and you give your ticket away?

SEAN:

You should have seen this girl. She lit up the room.

WILL:

I don't care if Helen of Troy walked into that bar! That's game six of the World Series!

Sean smiles.

WILL:

And what kind of friends are these?

They let you get away with that?

SEAN:

I just slid my ticket across the table and said "sorry fellas, I gotta go see about a girl."

WILL:

"I gotta go see about a girl"? What did they say?

SEAN:

They could see that I meant it.

WILL:

You're kiddin' me.

SEAN:

No Will, I'm not kiddin' you. If I had gone to see that game I'd be in here talkin' abouta girl I saw at a bar twenty years ago. And how I always regretted not goin' over there and talkin' to her. I don't regret the eighteen years we were married. I don't regret givin' up counseling for six years when she got sick. I don't regret being by her side for the last two years when things got real bad. And I sure as Hell don't regret missing that damn game.

A beat. Will is impressed.

WILL:

Would have been nice to catch that game though.

SEAN:

(breaking) Well hell, I didn't know Pudge was gonna hit the home run.

They laugh.

TIME DISSOLVE TO: INT LAMBEAU'S OFFICE -- DAY The office is more crowded than usual. TOM and THREE of LAMBEAU'S COLLEAGUES including the esteemed ALEXANDER PEKEC are in the room. Will sits at a work-station which projects a proof of his [Will's] onto the chalkboard. Lambeau stands beside the projected image at the board arguing with Pekec, a foreign mathematician. The image is of a Ramses graph binary tree.

LAMBEAU:

Alexander, I know your theory. The boy is updating, he's strategy stealing...

PEKEC:

With a Ramses graph on the binary tree--

LAMBEAU:

--But what he's doing, he's attaching an edge to the adjacent vertex. He can always failsafe to either side--

PEKEC:

Maker can. This is not new, Gerry!

Pekec starts writing lines beside Will's proof on the board.

PEKEC:

But I can always garbage out (writes frantically) All the way to "N" to the minus one.

LAMBEAU:

No, there's a limit.

PEKEC:

The limit is not found!

(turns to Will) The limit is not found.