Boyhood

Name: Boyhood
Genre: Drama
Released: 2014-06-05
Duration: 165 min

12 years in the making.

20142h 45mcritics 7.5/10

Drama

The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.

starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Lorelei Linklater

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Metacritic37 read

“I found this such a slog”
Andy_J_UKabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“Nothing ever happens on its almost 3 hours of runtime. Nothing.”
allezhavenabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“Because there is nothing, nothing, on Boyhood”
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“The most boring movie of all time.”
SkipSheffieldabout 0–100% inread it ↗

TMDB3 read

“**Phenomenal** When you think back to _Slackers_ you remember how easy that movie flowed. How comfortably it drifted. Just go with it. Let it happen, live in the moment. Then there's the _Before trilogy_ which again seemed effortless and free-flowing yet constructed with so much care that you knew this filmmaker was not only unusual, but acutely human. That he cherished experience and learning and submitted to the eternal present, surrendering to and tinkering with fate, while tending to the ”
tmdb39513728read it ↗
“Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood' is a brilliant film about life and the struggle to find meaning. It follows a family through a twelve year period as they endure situations and tackle obstacles together. The main technical aspect of the film is a very controversial and memorable one as Linklater hired his main actors and continued to follow them for twelve years thus adding to the realism of the feature adding much poignancy to the themes. The overall direction can be considered very naturalistic a”
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“Boyhood organically condenses twelve years of upbringing into an undramatic three hour behemoth. The journey of adolescence is one personality-altering experience that each of us inevitably undertakes. An existential life step that physically and personably transforms our very bodies, from innocent child to independent adult. Parents forced to release their protective talons and enable their children to venture out into the harsh world, justifiably falling down the pitfalls of life and picking t”
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