Boyhood · written by Richard Linklater · 2014

The clerk gives Randy five hundred dollars for Bill's check and tells the boys to take care of their father.

Scene 72 of 160 · ≈ 1 min on screen · Act two

Clerk
Randy

Act oneAct twoAct three

Begins 1:03 into a 3:02 film

The story so farBefore scene 72

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 69
Bill checks the children's phones for evidence of Olivia's whereabouts, then orders everyone into the car to find her.
Scene 70
At a liquor-store ATM, Mindy cannot withdraw cash and Bill assumes Olivia has taken it.
Scene 71
A drunk Bill writes a check and sends Mason and Randy into the liquor store to cash it.
Scene 72
This scene

72INT. LIQUOR STORE - CONTINUOUS

Mason and Randy enter the liquor store.

CLERK

Hi, good afternoon, fellas. What

can I do for you today?

Randy lays the check and driver's license down on the counter, for the Clerk to examine.

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

Now what's this? Can't read this.

Hey! This isn't you, who is this?

RANDY

(pointing outside)

It's our... dad.

Bill waves from the car.

RANDY (CONT'D)

He's not feeling well.

CLERK

Oh! Hey! Yeah, I know him. Okay,

here we go. Five hundred bucks.

One, two, three, four... Five hundred

bucks. Alright? Don't forget your

dad's ID.

The boys leave the store, while the Clerk calls after them.

CLERK (CONT'D)

Alright, take care of your dad now,

son. You've only got the one.