Boyhood · written by Richard Linklater · 2014

The children walk home trading jokes and gossip until Paul swears at them from the street.

Scene 34 of 160 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Neighborhood Boy
Mason
Randy
Mason And Randy
Mindy
Neighborhood Girl
Samantha
Paul

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 34 min into a 3:02 film

The story so farBefore scene 34

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.
Scene 30
Mason and Olivia cross the college campus that becomes their new life in Houston, leaving his childhood home behind.
Just before
Scene 31
Mason meets Olivia's professor, Bill Welbrock, and notices a personal connection between them.
Scene 32
The children stage a welcome-home celebration for Olivia and Bill after their honeymoon and greet the new blended household.
Scene 33
At dinner, the family swaps honeymoon stories until Bill reprimands Randy for playing games instead of finishing his science project.
Scene 34
This scene

34EXT. NEIGHBORHOOD STREET - DAY

Our gang of kids, plus two more (NEIGHBORHOOD BOY and NEIGHBORHOOD GIRL) walk home from school together. The boys walk in a pack slightly in front of the girls.

NEIGHBORHOOD BOY

Grievous is the best, man.

MASON

Yoda! Yoda, man.

RANDY

No, Yoda is!

MASON AND RANDY

Yoda!

NEIGHBORHOOD BOY

He has four arms.

MASON

Yoda! Represent.

MINDY

I hate Ms. Billingsly. Everybody's

been saying she's lesbian.

NEIGHBORHOOD GIRL

She is. She hit on Stacy.

MINDY

Man, that's gross.

SAMANTHA

Think it's true?

NEIGHBORHOOD GIRL

She's always walking in the locker

room.

RANDY

I think I still have a couple of

those--

PAUL, overly large/mentally impaired neighborhood teen they seem familiar with, walks by awkwardly bouncing a basketball.

NEIGHBORHOOD BOY (O.S.)

Hey, Paul. Tell us a joke.

PAUL

Damn. Fuck. Go to hell. Ass.

The kids look at him quizzically and keep walking.