Boyhood · written by Richard Linklater · 2014

Olivia asks Samantha to finish listing household items for sale; Jim criticizes Mason's nail polish and equates responsibility with being cool.

Scene 122 of 160 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act three

Mom
Samantha
Jim
Mason

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 2:07 into a 3:02 film

The story so farBefore scene 122

As his mother’s homes and relationships change, Mason grows from a restless child into a young photographer learning to choose his own direction before leaving for college.

Scenes 1–11
Mason’s world is a child’s local orbit of school, siblings, play, and a family not yet displaced.
Scenes 12–23
The move exposes Mason’s wish to keep his friends and stay connected to his absent father while Olivia seeks a more secure life.
Scenes 24–74
Mason enters successive new family arrangements: Dad’s return, Olivia’s marriage to Bill, and finally escape from Bill’s house.
Just before
Scene 119
At a pond, Annie offers fishing with her father, the family discusses baptism, and Dad skips a stone while Mason photographs it.
Scene 120
Photography teacher Turlington praises Mason's eye but challenges his discipline and assigns him to shoot a football game.
Scene 121
Nick jokes that Mason and Turlington spent too long together in the darkroom, and Mason jabs him playfully.
Scene 122
This scene

122INT. JIM'S HOUSE - DAY

Jim sits at the kitchen table, opening a beer. Mom and Samantha prepare dinner in the kitchen. Mom walks over to the stairs to call up to Mason.

MOM

Mason! Honey, come down for dinner.

On her way back to the kitchen, Mom notices the screen on an open laptop.

MOM (CONT'D)

Samantha! You didn't post these

pictures and their descriptions?

Come on, this auction is going to

end on Sunday, honey. You've got to

get those posted.

SAMANTHA

Why are we even doing this? It's

like an online junk shop. I thought

you had a good job?

MOM

I do. We're what you call house

poor. Everyone's got to do their

part. Your brother took the pictures.

You have to help.

SAMANTHA

Who even buys this shit?

JIM

Hey, Sam, watch your mouth, alright?

Don't disrespect your mother. You

like a roof over your head, don't

you?

MOM

Yeah, and you like having electricity

so that you can charge your cell

phone?

SAMANTHA

I'm not even gonna be here next year.

I'm a senior. I should be having

fun.

Mason enters. He sits down at the table. He has blue nail polish on his fingernails.

JIM

Nice nails.

MASON

Yeah, some girl did that in sixth

period.

JIM

You planning on keeping them?

MASON

Until it comes off, I guess.

JIM

Last summer it was the earrings, and