Boyhood

Richard Linklater · 2014 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A Texas boy is followed from first grade to his first day at college while his mother remarries twice, his father turns up at weekends in a muscle car, and the family packs up whenever a household breaks. Nothing is staged as a turning point; haircuts, jobs and arguments simply accumulate. Linklater gathered the same cast for a few days a year across twelve years.

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