Filmed over 12 years with the same cast, Richard Linklater's BOYHOOD is a groundbreaking story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason (a breakthrough performance by Ellar Coltrane), who literally grows up on screen before our eyes. Starring Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette as Mason's parents and newcomer Lorelei Linklater as his sister Samantha, BOYHOOD charts the rocky terrain of childhood like no other film has before.

Every year, for 12 years, director Richard Linklater has brought together the same actors for a unique film about the family and the passage of time. We follow the young Mason from the age of six until his majority, living with his sister and his mother, separated from his father. The moves, the friends, the start of the school year, the first emotions, the little things and the big decisions that punctuate his youth and prepare him to become an adult...