• The scene where Sean and Will are in his office, and Sean starts talking about his dead wife and her farting antics. These lines were ad-libbed by Robin Williams, which is probably why Matt Damon is laughing so hard. If you watch the scene carefully you can notice the camera shaking, probably due to the cameraman laughing as well.
• Roger Ebert asked in his "Movie Answer Man" column for suggestions as to who Will's brothers Marky, Ricky, Danny, Terry, Mikey, Davey, Timmy, Tommy, Joey, Robby, Johnny, and Brian were named after. Gina Dante of Minneapolis suggested that they were "directors whom Ben Affleck and Matt Damon would like to work with": Marc Rocco, Richard Attenborough, Danny Boyle, Terry Gilliam, Mikael Salomon, David Fincher, Tim Burton, Tom Hanks, Joel Schumacher, Robert Redford, John Woo, and Brian De Palma.
• The lecture hall in the movie is actually a lecture hall in McLennan Physical Laboratories (MP); a building at the University of Toronto (St. George Campus) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• In the scene on the park bench, Robin Williams gives an example of love that Will hasn't experienced as "going to hell and back for it." In his next movie, What Dreams May Come (1998), Williams does just that for his love played by Annabella Sciorra after she commits suicide.
• The mathematical equations seen in the opening credits are part of a math technique called "Fourier Analysis" which approximates functions by sines and cosines. It's used a lot in physics and engineering.
  Link this trivia

Contributors

• 
  es9012
  20 items »
• 
  HBogart
  16 items »
• 
  sandrita0210
  6 items »

More...

• Songs (12) keyboard_arrow_right
• Quotes (10) keyboard_arrow_right
• Trivia (10) keyboard_arrow_right
• Magazines (2) keyboard_arrow_right
• Photos (29) keyboard_arrow_right
• Lists (61) keyboard_arrow_right
• Awards (52) keyboard_arrow_right
• Fans (22) keyboard_arrow_right

• 
  The Social Network
• 
  The Paper Chase
• 
  Legally Blonde