Boyhood · written by Richard Linklater · 2014

At lunch, Olivia explains her plan to sell, donate, or keep belongings; Samantha admits she is hungover, and Ernesto thanks Olivia for encouraging him to study years earlier.

Scene 152 of 160 · ≈ 3 min on screen · Act three

Mom
Mason
Samantha
Ernesto

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 2:50 into a 3:02 film

The story so farBefore scene 152

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.
Scenes 75–123
He adapts to new homes and schools, tests independence with friends and work, and develops an eye for photography.
Scenes 124–138
Mason names what makes him feel alive, draws closer to Sheena, and reaches a first sustained intimacy with her.
Just before
Scene 149
Uncle Steve gives Mason crude advice about sex and college while Dad tries to rein him in.
Scene 150
Olivia and Dad talk privately at the party; he praises her parenting and offers to help with the costs.
Scene 151
At Antone's, Dad comforts Mason over Sheena, admits nobody knows life's point, and reminds him that his photographs earned recognition before Jimmy's band plays for him.
Scene 152
This scene

152INT. CAFE - DAY

Mom, Mason and Samantha sit down at a table. A waitress places menus.

MOM

Thank you. Okay guys, let's be clear.

I'm going to break this into four

categories. One. Anything you wanna

keep from your childhood and your

taking with you. Two. Throwing

away. Three. Donating. Four.

Whatever you wanna try to sell at

the garage sell next weekend, whatever

we don't sell, we're donating.

MASON

Doesn't the apartment have like an

attic, or storage or something?

MOM

No. You're missing the point. We're

not going to drag a bunch of crap to

mom's tiny apartment.

SAMANTHA

Can't believe we're moving again.

MOM

No, I'm moving! You moved two years

ago. You have an apartment in Austin.

Mason is moving the fall. I'm done.

This will be great for me. I'll

have all these options. I could

take a sabbatical. I could get some

writing done and try to get published.

MASON

What about Christmas, though? What

are we gonna do?

SAMANTHA

I'm not sharing a room with him.

MOM

One of you will sleep on the couch,

and we'll use that blow-up mattress.

SAMANTHA

How am I supposed to do my laundry?

MOM

Sam, I'm gently pushing you out of

the nest.

And on your way down you may magically

find some quarters that you use to

do laundry in your own apartment.

Come on! You guys are adults. You

need to take some responsibility!