Matt & Ben begins with the audacious presumption that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, then Hollywood nobodies, couldn’t possibly have written the screenplay for Good Will Hunting —which ultimately garnered them an Academy Award. Written by Mindy Kaling (then a fellow Cambridge-raised unknown) and her college bestie Brenda Withers, Matt & Ben is a riotously funny journey to early 90s Somerville, Massachusetts. There, the two fledgling actors hole up in Affleck’s bro-ey apartment, trying to write an adapted screenplay of The Catcher in the Rye when—plop!—the script for Good Will Hunting falls from the ceiling.

The following hour follows the friends as they grapple with what to do with the script—surely a gift, or a curse, from God. As they do, exaggerated depictions of their characte

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