Boyhood · written by Richard Linklater · 2014

Olivia reads Harry Potter aloud while Mason and Samantha lie beside her in bed.

Scene 6 of 160 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act one

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Begins 4 min into a 3:02 film

The story so farBefore scene 6

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.

Scene 1
Young Mason lies in the grass outside school, looking at clouds and inventing how wasps begin.
Just before
Scene 3
Mason rides his bike from home and meets Tommy as they head down into the drainage ditch.
Scene 4
Mason spray-paints the ditch wall with Tommy until Samantha calls him home for dinner.
Scene 5
Ted arrives to take Olivia out, then leaves when she admits she has no babysitter for the children.
Scene 6
This scene

6INT. BEDROOM - NIGHT

The kids lie on either side of Mom, as she reads a story aloud to them.

MOM

(Reading)

"Turn back! Turn back! I don't wanna

talk to Moaning Myrtle." "Who?"

said Harry as they backtracked

quickly. "She haunts one of the

toilets in the girls bathroom on the

first floor," said Hermione.

"She haunts a toilet?"

"Yes, it's been out of order all year

because she keeps having tantrums

and flooding the place."

"I never went in there anyway if I

could avoid it. It's awful trying

to have a pee with her wailing at

you."