Shot Here · STOP 06 · Public Garden · COMMEMORATIVE
The Good Will Hunting bench has no plaque. In August 2014 Boston marked it anyway.
A scene in Good Will Hunting (1997) was filmed on a bench by the lagoon in Boston's Public Garden. No sign marks which bench. After Robin Williams died in August 2014, hundreds of people came here to leave flowers and write remembrances in chalk. If you visit, sit for a minute and leave room for the next person. If you need someone to talk to, call or text 988.
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Universal Hub posted a photo of the bench taken around 6 a.m. on August 12, 2014, the morning after he died.
More footnotes on the story card, in the app.
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- Reel BostonTy Burr, The Boston Globe · 2005-02-27
- At Bar And Bench, Boston Remembers Robin WilliamsAndrea Shea, WBUR · 2014-08-12
- Good Will Hunting bench becomes memorialUniversal Hub · 2014-08-12
- Good Will Hunting BenchAtlas Obscura · 2025-11-05
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline988 Lifeline (SAMHSA-funded) · accessed 2026-10-11