Boyhood · written by Richard Linklater · 2014

Mason hurriedly packs for school while Olivia calls him to breakfast and reminds him about homework.

Scene 19 of 160 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Mason

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Begins 13 min into a 3:02 film

The story so farBefore scene 19

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.
Scene 12
Olivia announces the Houston move so she can return to college and support the family, uprooting Mason from his first home and friends.
Just before
Scene 16
As Samantha talks on the phone about leaving friends, Mason paints over the height marks on his bedroom doorjamb.
Scene 17
The family says goodbye to the house and neighborhood; Mason watches Tommy arrive too late to stop their departure.
Scene 18
Mason and Samantha wrestle in the back seat until Olivia starts a silence game as they approach Houston.
Scene 19
This scene

19INT. BEDROOM - DAY

Mason appears grumpy, trying to shove what he needs for the day into his backpack quickly.

MOM (O.S.)

The bus'll be here in ten minutes.

MOM (CONT'D)

(steps into doorway)

Put that homework in your backpack!

MOM (O.S.) (CONT'D)

Go eat! Baby, go eat!

MASON

I am!