Good Will Hunting (1997)Movie Script

WILL:

Probation, counselin', few days a week.

CHUCKIE:

You're f***in' good.

Will smiles.

CHUCKIE:

Just submit, Morgan. He's got you in the Cobra Clutch.

MORGAN:

(to Chuckie) F*** your mother too!

INT. 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.

INT. PSYCHOLOGIST'S OFFICE -- CONTINUOUS Will sits in a well decorated Psychologist's Office. Across from Will sits the same PSYCHOLOGIST, HENRY LIPKIN (40), from the book. They are in mid-session.

WILL:

That's why I love stock-car racin'.

That Dale Ernhart's real good.

PSYCHOLOGIST:

Now you know Will, and I know, what you need to be doing. You have a gift.

WILL:

I could work the pit maybe, but I could never drive like Dale Ernhart--

PSYCHOLOGIST:

You have a quality -- something you were born with, that you have no control over -- and you are, in a sense, hiding that by becoming a janitor. And I'm not saying that's wrong. I'm friends with the janitor that works in my building. He's been to my house for dinner. As a matter of fact I did some free consultation for "Mike" -- that's not his real name. That's in my book.

WILL:

Yeah, I read your book. "Mike" had the same problems as "Chad" the stockbroker.

PSYCHOLOGIST:

Yes. The pressures you feel, and again, I am neither labeling nor judging them, are keeping you from fulfilling your potential -- you're in a rut. So stop the Tom Foolery -- the Shenanigan's, Will.

WILL:

You're right. I know.

PSYCHOLOGIST:

Will, your not getting off that easy.

WILL:

No, but, I mean you know... I do other things. That no one knows about.

PSYCHOLOGIST:

Like what, Will?

WILL:

I go places, I interact.

PSYCHOLOGIST:

What places?

WILL:

Certain, clubs.

(beat) Like, Paradise. It's not bad.

Will gives the Psychologist a furtive look.

WILL:

It's just that feeling when you can take your shirt off and really dance.

(beat) When the music owns you. Do you understand?