Rental Review - Boyhood
Boyhood (2014), R, 165 minutes - The poster for Boyhood states that it is 'A Moving 12 Year Epic'.* I'm not sure I've ever seen a more succinct or more truthful pull quote/tag line for a film. Boyhood is a visionary work from the mind of writer/director Richard Linklater, who gathered his cast together for a short time once a year for twelve years in order to film this story of a young boy's journey into adulthood (from age 5 to 18). Think about that for a minute. This film wasn't made over the course of one summer, substituting actors and actresses in and out to show the characters at different ages. It was made bit by bit, piece by piece over those actor's and actress's actual lives, providing this film with a level of continuity never before seen in film. The film focuses on Mason (Ellar Coltrane) and his immediate family: his divorced parents - mom (Patricia Arquette) and dad (Ethan Hawke) - and his sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater). Other f...