Matt Damon has a lot of friends. From his auspicious beginnings charming ’90s Hollywood to his A-list blockbuster present, the Oscar-winning actor has been racking up enough cinematic mates to field both sides of a World Cup rugby match. While the Bourne series frequently sees him striking out on his own, more often than not, if Damon’s up on screen, he’s hanging with his guys (and the occasional lady, too). And he’s got a lot of them. There’s a trio of Boston bros, a monster-battling soldier, and an ex-con dealing from the bottom of the deck. There’s a band of brothers, a one-eyed outlaw, and a baker’s dozen of thieves. There are friends with money, friends with guns, and friends with such enviable lives that he tries to take them as his own. He’s got fellow men in uniform, a whole colony’s worth of very, very little people, and, yes, even the world leader who would end apartheid. In celebration of our favorite Harvard dropout’s 48th birthday, we give you 11 movies in which Matt Damon kicks it with some old comrades or finds a few new familiars. Turns out the friends Matt Damon made along the way were... the friends Matt Damon made along the way.
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