Boyhood · written by Richard Linklater · 2014

Mason and Randy hide a questionable computer screen when Mindy interrupts to tell them Bill is arranging haircuts.

Scene 56 of 160 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Neighborhood Boy
Mindy
Randy

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 55 min into a 3:02 film

The story so farBefore scene 56

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 53
Dad tucks Samantha into bed after their day together, and she apologizes that Mason had to come too.
Scene 54
Mason asks whether elves are real; Dad says the natural world can be magical even without them.
Scene 55
Dad says goodbye to the children at Olivia's driveway and agrees to discuss Samantha's next sleepover with their mother.
Scene 56
This scene

56INT. BEDROOM - DAY

Mason, Randy, and the Neighborhood Boy sit around a computer screen. They appear to be looking at something illicit.

NEIGHBORHOOD BOY

Aw, man. How do you guys not know

how to do this? I'll make you some

bookmarks. Just a second. Shit,

guys.

A knock on the door interrupts them. They close the laptop immediately and turn around, trying not to look guilty.

MINDY

Randy, and Mason, Dad wants you guys

downstairs.

RANDY

Why?

MINDY

You're getting haircuts.

The boys stand to exit.