Boyhood · written by Richard Linklater · 2014

Dad teaches Mason and Samantha how to catch a football with soft hands.

Scene 48 of 160 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

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Begins 48 min into a 3:02 film

The story so farBefore scene 48

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.
Scene 32
Olivia and Bill return from their honeymoon to a newly joined household, placing Mason inside the family structure that dominates the next chapter.
Just before
Scene 45
Dad pulls over to make the children talk about their lives, then accepts Mason's suggestion that their conversations should happen more naturally.
Scene 46
Dad and the children identify butterflies at a museum, and a butterfly lands on Mason.
Scene 47
The children and Dad run around an outdoor sculpture playing tag.
Scene 48
This scene

48EXT. PARK - DAY

Dad is tossing a football with Mason and Samantha.

DAD

Yo, Mase, look at me here. Make a

diamond with your hands, alright?

Fingers and thumbs. Keep your hands

soft. Hey, Sam.

Samantha throws the football to Dad.

DAD (CONT'D)

Very nice. That's how you want to

catch it, just like that. Even when

you're runnin', that's what you're

thinkin' about, that diamond. That

diamond, and soft hands.

Dad throws the ball to Mason.

DAD (CONT'D)

There it is.

Mason throws the ball back to Samantha.