Boyhood · written by Richard Linklater · 2014

Mason asks whether Olivia still loves his absent father and worries he will not find them after the move; she reassures him.

Scene 13 of 160 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Mason
Mom

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Begins 9 min into a 3:02 film

The story so farBefore scene 13

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.
Just before
Scene 10
Mason and Tommy giggle over the lingerie pages of a catalog.
Scene 11
Mason studies a dead bird in the backyard.
Scene 12
Over lunch, Olivia tells the children they will move to Houston so she can return to college and improve their lives.
Scene 13
This scene

13INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT

Mason and Mom are lying on his bed together.

MASON

Mom, do you still love Dad?

MOM

I still love your father... but that

doesn't mean it was healthy for us

to stay together.

MASON

What if after we move he's trying to

find us and he can't?

MOM

Oh, that won't be a problem. He can

call Grandma and she'll tell him or

he can call Information. We won't

be hard to find.

She pushes back his hair lovingly.

MASON

Is he still in Alaska?

MOM

Well, that's what your uncle says.

MASON

Probably taming polar bears or

something.

MOM

Yeah... well, I hope they're taming

him.