Big Stars, Low Budgets
1. Much Ado About Nothing
2. Magnolia
3. The Thin Red Line
4. The Ice Storm
5. Being John Malkovich
6. Pulp Fiction
7. Snatch
8. Good Will Hunting
9. Cop Land
10. The Player
8. Good Will Hunting - Affleck and Damon may not have been demanding their current titanic salaries when they wrote and starred in this Oscar-winning drama, but it was still quite a feat to bring this in at a lean $10 million. Usually commanding an amount equal to the films total budget, funnyman Williams was so impressed with the script, which he described as the best he'd seen since Dead Poet's Society and Awakenings, that he accepted a lesser fee for the chance to play it straight as therapist Sean Maguire.
