Good Will Hunting (1997)Movie Script

CHUCKIE:

Let me tell you what I do know. Every day I come by to pick you up, and we go out drinkin' or whatever and we have a few laughs. But you know what the best part of my day is? The ten seconds before I knock on the door 'cause I let myself think I might get there, and you'd be gone. I'd knock on the door and you wouldn't be there. You just left.

A beat.

CHUCKIE:

Now, I don't know much. But I know that.

CUT TO:

INT. SEAN'S OFFICE -- DAY Lambeau stands across from Sean, seething.

LAMBEAU:

This is a disaster! I brought you in here to help me with this boy, not to run him out--

SEAN:

Now wait a minute--

LAMBEAU:

--And confuse him--

SEAN:

--Gerry--

LAMBEAU:

And here I am for the second week in a row with my professional reputation at stake--

SEAN:

Hold on!

LAMBEAU:

Ready to falsify documents because you've given him license to walk away from this.

SEAN:

I know what I'm doing and I know why I'm here!

LAMBEAU:

Look Sean, I don't care if you have a rapport with the boy -- I don't care if you have a few laughs -- even at my expense! But don't you dare undermine what I'm trying to do here.

SEAN:

"Undermine?"

LAMBEAU:

He has a gift and with that gift comes responsibility. And you don't understand that he's at a fragile point--

SEAN:

He is at a fragile point. He's got problems--

LAMBEAU:

What problems does he have, Sean, that he is better off as a janitor or in jail or hanging around with--

SEAN:

Why do you think he does that, Gerry?

LAMBEAU:

He can handle the work, he can handle the pressure and he's obviously handled you.

SEAN:

Why is he hiding? Why is he a janitor?

Why doesn't he trust anybody? Because the first thing that happened to him was that he was abandoned by the people who were supposed to love him the most!

LAMBEAU:

Oh, come on, Sean--

SEAN:

And why does he hang out with his friends? Because any one of those kids would come in here and take a bat to your head if he asked them to. It's called loyalty!

LAMBEAU:

Oh, that's nice--

SEAN:

And who do you think he's handling?