‘Boyhood’ Chronicles Life Over 12 Years, Watch The Touching Trailer!

Briefly: I’d barely heard of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood before today. Then, our fearless leader Jonathan said this:

Boyhood is the best movie I’ve seen all year. December 31st it probably still will be. https://t.co/eV4RnKEoDj

— Jonathan London (@JonathanLondon) April 25, 2014

Need I say more? The film looks touching and awe-inspiring, and based solely on the fact that it follows one child from ages 5-18, and the same group of actors for that entire time ,is like nothing that’s ever existed before.

Boyhood hits theatres on July 11th. Take a look at the trailer below, and be sure to let us know what you think.

Richard Linklater’s BOYHOOD — a fictional drama made with the same group of actors over a 12-year period from 2002-2013 — takes a one-of-a-kind trip, at once epic and intimate, through the exhilaration of childhood, the seismic shifts of a modern family and the very passage of time.

 

The film tracks 6 year-old Mason (Ellar Coltrane) over life’s most radically fluctuating decade, through a familiar whirl of family moves, family controversies, faltering marriages, re-marriages, new schools, first loves, lost loves, good times, scary times and a constantly unfolding mix of heartbreak and wonder. But the results are unpredictable, as one moment braids into the next, entwining into a deeply personal experience of the incidents that shape us as we grow up and the ever-changing nature of our lives.

 

As the story begins, dreamy-eyed grade-schooler Mason faces upheaval: his devoted, struggling single mom Olivia (Patricia Arquette) has decided to move him and older sister Samantha (Lorelei Linklater) to Houston — just as their long-absent father Mason Sr. (Ethan Hawke) returns from Alaska to re-enter their world. Thus begins life’s non-stop flux. Yet through a tide of parents and stepparents, girls, teachers and bosses, dangers, yearnings and creative passions, Mason emerges to head down his own road.