Boyhood · written by Richard Linklater · 2014

Bill checks the children's phones for evidence of Olivia's whereabouts, then orders everyone into the car to find her.

Scene 69 of 160 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Bill
Mason
Mindy
Samantha

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:02 into a 3:02 film

The story so farBefore scene 69

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 66
Mason and Randy find Olivia crying on the garage floor after an accident; Bill dismisses her distress and berates her.
Scene 67
At dinner, Bill drinks, shatters a glass and bottle, and frightens the children while Olivia protests.
Scene 68
The children watch a comedy video and ask whether Bill has ever been as bad as he was at dinner.
Scene 69
This scene

69INT. LIVING ROOM - DAY

Bill sits on the coffee table, facing all four kids in a row on the sofa.

BILL

Give me your cell phones. So nobody

talked to her, huh?

The girls shake their heads no. Bill is checking their phone call histories.

BILL (CONT'D)

Mason?

MASON

No.

BILL

Mindy?

MINDY

No.

BILL

I'll believe you... Samantha?

SAMANTHA

No.

Bill holds her phone screen out, as if to prove her wrong.

SAMANTHA (CONT'D)

I didn't talk to her. She left a

message.

BILL

What'd she say?

SAMANTHA

Nothing much.

BILL

What did she say?

SAMANTHA

She said she'd be back later.

BILL

And that's all? "I'll be back later,"

click?

SAMANTHA

She said, "Stay in your rooms. I'll

be back later."

BILL (O.S.)

I'll be back later, stay in your

rooms. And that's all? Hm?

SAMANTHA

Yeah.

BILL

Where is she?

SAMANTHA

I don't know.

BILL

Where is she?

SAMANTHA

She didn't say!

BILL

Alright, everybody get in the car.

Hurry up! Get in the car!