Matt Damon
Robin Williams
Minnie Driver Ben Affleck
Stellan Skargård
Casey Affleck
Cole Hauser
A South Boston whiz kid (Damon) elects to clean the halls of learning rather than enter them, slumming his
way through life as a janitor at MIT. But his natural ability to unravel complex equations attracts
the attention of a professor (Skarsgård) who won't let him quit, a beautiful Harvard student (Driver) who wants to save
him, a sympathetic buddy who wants him to escape South Boston, and a counselor (Williams) who
encourages him. A soundly acclaimed, homegrown effort from lifelong Boston buddies Damon
and Affleck, who pushed their script through development by disguising it as a suspense thriller.
