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- 2014
- Richard Linklater
- 158 mins
- 15
Summary
Drama starring Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke. Director Richard Linklater's film, shot over a period of 12 years, follows one boy's development to the age of 18 with his personal journey linked to milestones in America's history.
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A star rating of 5 out of 5.
Sophie Ivan
As his Before... trilogy perfectly illustrated, Richard Linklater is a film-maker obsessed with time - both its passing and the difficulty of ever truly capturing it on film. With the extraordinary Boyhood, the story of a young American every-boy (Ellar Coltrane), shot at intervals over 12 years with the same cast, the director comes closer than ever to achieving the impossible. Tracking Coltrane up to the age of 18, the film is told not through births, marriages and deaths but the moments in between, casually punctuated by cultural milestones like midnight Harry Potter book launches, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the wave of optimism that swept Obama to his historic first presidential term. Elevated by fantastic performances all round - especially from Patricia Arquette as the boy's quietly heroic single mother - and told with Linklater's trademark generosity and lightness of touch, Boyhood is an epic of the everyday, as uplifting as it is universal.
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Cast
rolenameOliviaPatricia ArquetteMason SrEthan HawkeMasonEllar SalmonSamanthaLorelei LinklaterProfessor Bill WellbrockMarco PerellaJillEvie ThompsonJimBrad HawkinsAnnieJenni TooleySheenaZoe GrahamTammyTamara JolaineCharlieNick KrauseTonyJordan HowardNickSam Dillon
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rolenameDirectorRichard Linklater
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Theatrical distributor
Universal Pictures Int (UK)
Released on
2014-07-11
Languages
English | Arabic | Ukrainian | Spanish
Guidance
Swearing, drug abuse.
Available on
DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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