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Watch The Trailer For Richard Linklater’s BOYHOOD

By Michelle McCue | April 26, 2014

From IFC Films comes Richard Linklater’s BOYHOOD – a fictional drama made with the same group of actors over a 12-year period. The film takes a one-of-a-kind trip, at once epic and intimate, through the exhilaration of childhood, the seismic shifts of a modern family and the very passage of time.

BOYHOOD screened at the 2014 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, the 2014 BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL and the 2014 SXSW FILM FESTIVAL.

BOYHOOD tracks 6 year-old Mason (Ellar Coltrane) over life’s most radically fluctuating decade, through a familiar whirl of family moves, family controversies, faltering marriages, re-marriages, new schools, first loves, lost loves, good times, scary times and a constantly unfolding mix of heartbreak and wonder.

But the results are unpredictable, as one moment braids into the next, entwining into a deeply personal experience of the incidents that shape us as we grow up and the ever-changing nature of our lives.

As the story begins, dreamy-eyed grade-schooler Mason faces upheaval: his devoted, struggling single mom Olivia (Patricia Arquette) has decided to move him and older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) to Houston – just as their long-absent father Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke) returns from Alaska to re-enter their world.

Thus begins life’s non-stop flux. Yet through a tide of parents and stepparents, girls, teachers and bosses, dangers, yearnings and creative passions, Mason emerges to head down his own road.

Set to a soundtrack spanning the years from Coldplay’s Yellow to Arcade Fire’s Deep Blue, BOYHOOD is both a nostalgic time capsule of the recent past and an ode to growing up and parenting. It’s impossible not to watch Mason and his family without thinking about our own journey.