This is the movie that made filming in Southie cool. Most of us who are currently PAs are too young to have worked on this classic... but we all have fond memories of yelling "How do you like dem apples?" at our junior high/ high school classmates. This movie started the Six Degrees of Matt Damon/Ben Affleck -- in which everybody in town traced their personal connection to these two actors: "My friend's cousin goes to Newton North and knows some guys on the baseball team and the coach is Matt Damon's father... One time he came by to get the car keys, and the whole school freaked!"... etc.
Ah, the memories.
The movie itself is spectacular. A bunch of guys driving around in a beat up car never looked so good. Being a janitor at MIT never looked so good. Harassing douchey Harvard undergrads at the bar never felt so good... And it led to one of the greatest movie parodies in memory: Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back
Sadly, this film was up against Titanic in nearly every Oscar category, and lost out to Propeller Man on most counts. Matt and Ben got their trophies for writing the screenplay. They managed to thank almost everybody in Boston, individually.
Minor deductions for Robin Williams horrible pronunciation of the word "Fart".
FINAL SCORE = A-
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