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Ben Affleck (born Benjamin Géza Affleck-Boldt; August 15, 1972) is an American actor, film director, writer, and producer. He became known in the mid-1990s with his performance in the Kevin Smith films Mallrats (1995) and Chasing Amy (1997). Affleck is an Academy Award winner, along with Matt Damon, for their collaborative screenplay for the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. He established himself as a Hollywood leading man, having starred in several big budget films, such as Armageddon (1998), Pearl Harbor (2001), Changing Lanes (2002), The Sum of All Fears (2002), and Daredevil (2003).

And when it comes to returning cameos, Smith suggested he's looking at Dogma leads Ben Affleck and Matt Damon to fill out the Boston hockey squad: We'll have a team in Boston, and who do you think I'm going to call for that? Both of those dudes! I'll be like, 'I need you to put on sweaters' and s---, and hopefully they'll do it.

Matt and Ben is the funny, scathing, delightfully venomous story of Matt Damon and Ben Affleck (played by two women!) who are struggling to write a screenplay in their rundown apartment in Boston in 1996. Much to their surprise and delight, the script for Good Will Hunting falls from the sky and into their laps. Matt and Ben was a hit at the New York International Fringe Festival and off-Broadway. Click here to read a dramturgical note from local writer Christopher Johnston entitled Matt and Ben: The New Men Matt and Ben is presented in part by Reddstone. Click here to visit Reddstone online! SPECIAL OFFER for Matt and Ben ticket holders: Show your ticket stub at Reddstone and receive 10% off of dinner (does not include alcohol) or a free appetizer!

We learn from flashback that the unlikely couple first joined up as high school talent show partners. Ben's class clown antics sabotaged geeky Matt's guitar ballad but won them the competition. It's a fitting setup for their future relationship: Ben thinks Matt is controlling and over-intense, and Ben thinks Matt only succeeds through dumb luckemphasis on dumb. They stick together because they admire each other's talent, and because they share an inexplicable bond that the new screenplay will sorely test.