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Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, s BOYHOOD is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by ), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring and as Masons parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha, BOYHOOD charts the rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before. Snapshots of adolescence from road trips and family dinners to birthdays and graduations and all the moments in between become transcendent, set to a soundtrack spanning the years from Coldplays Yellow to Arcade Fires Deep Blue. BOYHOOD is both a nostalgic time capsule of the recent past and an ode to growing up and parenting.
Twelve years in the less than nuclear life of a nuclear Texas family - father Mason, mother Olivia, oldest offspring Samantha, and youngest offspring Mason Jr. - is presented, focusing on the younger Masons entire public school years, he sometimes referred to as MJ when in the presence of his father. This phase of their story begins in 2002 when Olivia and Mason, who originally married because she was pregnant, are now divorced, the marriage which was destined to dissolve due to these circumstances. Olivia has custody of the two children, and when he is around, Mason has weekend visitation rights, which has not happened in the last year or so as he stated he, an aspiring musician and somewhat irresponsible young adult, was "away somewhere in Alaska" trying to find himself. Olivia wants to eke out a better life for herself and the kids in a way that will also satisfy her own emotional needs. The two parents also try to move on with their sexual and relationship lives in the high probability that they will never reconcile, much against their childrens own wants. MJs growing up is affected by these circumstances and whatever the situation at the time outwardly orchestrated by Olivia (but often manipulated by others), and by his relationship with his family members - who evolve as they each grow up chronologically and emotionally - and others in his ever changing life.
Ellar Coltrane
Mason
Patricia Arquette
Olivia
Ethan Hawke
Dad
Elijah Smith
Tommy
Lorelei Linklater
Samantha
Steven Chester Prince
Ted
Bonnie Cross
Teacher
Sydney Orta
Elementary School Girl
Libby Villari
Grandma
Marco Perella
Professor Bill Welbrock
Jamie Howard
Mindy
Andrew Villarreal
Randy
Shane Graham
Neighborhood Friend #1
Tess Allen
Neighborhood Friend #2
Ryan Power
Paul
Sharee Fowler
Book Trivia Judge
Mark Finn
Book Release Emcee
Charlie Sexton
Jimmy
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