Boyhood · written by Richard Linklater · 2014

Dad brings the children home to a messy apartment where his roommate Jimmy watches a horror movie and resists helping clean.

Scene 51 of 160 · ≈ 2 min on screen · Act two

Samantha
Jimmy
Mason
Dad

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 50 min into a 3:02 film

The story so farBefore scene 51

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 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
At the Astros game, Mason asks whether Dad has a job; Dad explains his actuarial exams and celebrates the team's win.
Scene 51
This scene

51INT. DAD'S LIVING ROOM - NIGHT

The TV is playing the horror film HOSTEL. JIMMY sits on the couch watching the movie, as Dad and the kids enter.

SAMANTHA

Hi, Jimmy.

JIMMY

Hey, Samantha!

MASON

Hey, what's up, Jimmy?

JIMMY

What's goin' on, Mason, man?

Mason and Jimmy fist bump.

MASON

Astros won.

JIMMY

You went to the game?

Dad enters the room.

DAD

What, I'm the only one with any arms

around here? Nobody else can carry

anything, huh? Help their old man

out?

MASON

What you watching?

Jimmy gestures for silence.

DAD

Aw, come on Jimmy, man! You knew

the kids were comin' this weekend.

Dad clears dirty dishes and paraphernalia from the table.

DAD (CONT'D)

Can't you just help me out a little

bit, just --

JIMMY

I'm sorry, muffin.

DAD

Yeah, don't "muffin" me, alright?

Don't put me in that position.

Alright, I'm not your fuckin' Tony

Randall.

SAMANTHA

Dad, it's always a mess.

DAD

It was not a mess this morning.

Okay?

JIMMY

I mowed the lawn.

DAD

Oh yeah, great.

Dad stretches out beside Samantha on the couch.

DAD (CONT'D)

Oh, come on man! Turn this shit

off. Come on, give me that thing.

Dad takes the remote control away from Jimmy.

DAD (CONT'D)