Boyhood chronicles the coming of age life journey of Mason (Ellar Coltrane), originating with his wayfaring childhood in east and central Texas as he copes with the anguish of a broken home, splitting time between two loving but flawed parents (Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke) and continuing as he burgeons into a talented though detached adult. Filmed over the course of twelve years, Richard Linklater's passion project is an always enthralling voyage whose sheer vision and scope overcomes portions of the story that should suffer from lulls and overlength, and owes a lot to the fortified performances of Arquette and Hawke and some inspired dialogue and adventitiously captured moments.
