Boyhood · written by Richard Linklater · 2014

At the Astros game, Mason asks whether Dad has a job; Dad explains his actuarial exams and celebrates the team's win.

Scene 50 of 160 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Dad
Mason
Samantha

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Begins 49 min into a 3:02 film

The story so farBefore scene 50

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.
Scene 45
Dad asks Mason and Samantha to talk honestly during their weekends together, beginning a more mutual father-son relationship.
Just before
Scene 47
The children and Dad run around an outdoor sculpture playing tag.
Scene 48
Dad teaches Mason and Samantha how to catch a football with soft hands.
Scene 49
The family races downhill after a football, and Samantha gets it first.
Scene 50
This scene

50INT. BASEBALL STADIUM - NIGHT

Dad, Samantha, and Mason watch a live baseball game.

DAD (O.S.)

Let's go, Roger!

The crowd reacts to the game.

DAD (CONT'D)

Guy's incredible. He's unhittable

this year! Now just so you know,

what we're watching here, is history.

Now you see this guy out here? This

dude is like forty-three years old

and he's strikin' out guys half his

age. This guy's ERA is 1.47, alright,

can you believe that? Now if the

Astros could just get a few runs

maybe we'd win a game.

MASON

Dad, do you have a job?

DAD

Ha! Why would you ask me that?

MASON

I don't know. Mom wanted to know

and I didn't know what the answer

was.

DAD

Mom wanted to know. Alright. Well,

you can tell mom that I just happen

to have passed my second actuarial

exam, alright? So... you tell her

that. How's she doing?

SAMANTHA

Great.

DAD

She finishing school?

SAMANTHA

Yep, all 'A's.

DAD

All 'A's huh? Like mother, like

daughter, right?

The kids leave to get hot dogs, etc. Mason puts mustard on his.

They return to the game. A clutch Astros home run and the crowd is cheering. Our guys celebrate with high fives, etc.

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

You got this! That's outta here!

That's out-- Oh! Oh!

Fireworks go off. The crowd stands to their feet.

DAD (CONT'D)

Yeah!! Fuckin' A!