The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
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USA Sundance Film Festival USA South by Southwest Film Festival USAR New York City, New York 
Estonia Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival USAR 
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Romania15 
Ireland15A 
Netherlands6 
UK15 
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Slovakia USAR 
AustraliaM 
Denmark11 
GreeceΚ-12 
Spain12 
FinlandK-12 
ItalyT 
South Korea15 
Brazil14 Estonia 
PortugalM/12 
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Czechia15+ 
Poland18 
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ethan hawke gets hotter as this goes on
After finishing Boyhood and slowly gathering my thoughts on it I did what I usually do, fly over to Letterboxd to jot those thoughts down before they escape me. What I wasn't prepared for was what happened when I saw that poster. It was a slap in the face, a jarring reminder that I had just spent twelve years with someone.
I think it's easy to not look beyond this film's ambitious conception and even write it off as a non-eventful gimmick. There is no real plot, there are no grand character arcs, no dramatic tension. It lacks a narrative flow and has more scope than focus, it ambles on throughout its running time, meandering along the trivial and occasionally…
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i just... i cant believe they spent 12 years making this goddamn movie only for mason to end up becoming a boring stoner kid
It is not surprising that so many people identify closely with Boyhood. It hits all the hallmarks of growing up. There is the promise made years ago that the parent forgot but the child did not. There is the incessant fighting between siblings that is forgotten two minutes later, as well as the faking of who is to blame for the fight when the shouts of "MOM!" have been acknowledged. There is the change in address, school and friends, for which parents are always blamed and children's protests are always ignored. There is the period where children discover that they can exert some control by dressing how they like or coming in late, anything that can be taken as a…
It also took me 12 years to finish this, where is my Oscar nom??
so you're telling me linklater spent 12 years of his life documenting some pretentious kid's emo phase
ethan hawke really went from :
😉🖤🎸🎳🗣🍟
to
🤠✝️🇺🇸🙏🏻🚐👨🏻
saddest character development
"You think they'll ever make another STAR WARS movie?"
A miserable experience that thinks it's way more profound than it actually is. It has nothing to say and its only value as a film comes from the novelty of its gimmick. Watch Lady Bird or The Florida Project instead.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Two things I wanna say about that that I haven’t seen in any reviews:
1- The scene where they’re talking about fucking and throwing sawblades at a wall is so true to how absolutely scummy 13-15 year old boys trying to impress each other can be that I thought I was going to throw up.
2- It is legitimately so funny that he grows up to be a shitty goatee guy who does mushrooms and says shit like “we’re all engers on this crazy ride I like to call life”
great documentation of life, half way through and you want it to be over
feels like 12 years watching it too
