Boyhood · written by Richard Linklater · 2014

Olivia asks Mason to touch up the marks in their empty bedroom before they leave.

Scene 15 of 160 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

Mom
Mason

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Begins 10 min into a 3:02 film

The story so farBefore scene 15

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 12
Over lunch, Olivia tells the children they will move to Houston so she can return to college and improve their lives.
Scene 13
Mason asks whether Olivia still loves his absent father and worries he will not find them after the move; she reassures him.
Scene 14
The moving van leaves as Olivia adds another discarded item to the curbside pile.
Scene 15
This scene

15INT. HOUSE - DAY

Mom and Mason are getting ready to paint in the empty bedroom. They're looking at the two lone murals, which look a little odd without the bunk bed in front of them.

MOM

Here, wanna help me out?

MASON

Sure.

MOM

Okay. Take this paint... very

carefully... and paint any little

smudge or mark or anything on the

baseboard there, behind the door,

and all around the doorways on the

inside.