Good Will Hunting is best friends with Jack Nicholson, the most ostentatiously mad crime lord since the Joker. Good Will decides to become a policeman so he can swear a lot and tell crazy Jack what the police are doing. In the meantime, Leo DiCaprio is all sweaty and chin-sticky-outy. He’s best friends with President Bartlett, so he joins Mad Jack’s gang of wacky henchmen to tell President Bartlett what they’re all up to. Everyone spends a couple of hours swearing at each other, shooting each other and going a bit mad.
Trivia
The Departed is a remake of classic Hong Kong film ‘Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon’
Three new swearwords were invented for the film – Funblubble, Bock, and Sheddick
An early draft of the script had the whole film set in space with Costigan and Sullivan as bickering gay robots
In Boston criminal parlance ‘The Departed’ refers to the late delivery of a morning newspaper and is probably used here as a metaphor or something
Bloopers
Vera Farmiga’s Madolyn can be seen briefly levitating three feet off the ground and speaking in tongues after Sullivan asks her on a date
Quotes
Costello: “Never rub another man’s rubarb”
Details
Full Name: The Departed
Duration: 151 minutes
Release: 2006
Fries with that: Yes please
Starring
Jack Nicolson
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