Summary

Ben Affleck walks in the footsteps of Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, and George Clooney as a Hollywood leading man who made himself into a steady hand behind the camera. Affleck, whose acting reputation was in the dumps in the 2000s after a string of bad movies, really needed to reinvent himself. When his debut "Gone Baby Gone" premiered to acclaim in 2007, he reminded the world that, yes, the guy who starred in "Pearl Harbor" and "Gigli" is also the guy who co-wrote "Good Will Hunting."

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