A moving 12 year epic.
| Cast |
Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Elijah Smith, Lorelei Linklater, Steven Chester Prince |
| Director |
Richard Linklater |
| Screenplay | Richard Linklater |
| Music | Various |
| Cinematography | Lee Daniel, Shane F. Kelly |
| Editing | Sandra Adair |
| Sound formats | Dolby Digital |
| Soundtrack | Available |
| Made in | 2014 |
| Produced by | IFC Productions, Detour Filmproduction |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Language | Frequent with strong impact |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | Infrequent with low impact |
| Violence | Infrequent with moderate impact |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None |
| Comments | |
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| R: Restricted | Rated R for language including sexual references, and for teen drug and alcohol use |
| Runtime | 165 |
| USA version is usually but not always the same as South African release. Versions released on streaming or DVD, Blu-ray or Video may also differ. | |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith  Director pulls off cinematic feat | 15 |  |
| Die Burger Rozanne Els Prag-prent oor die niks, als van lewe | 20 | |
| Cape Times Todd McCarthy Exploring youth | 20 | |
| ReelViews James Berardinelli Because of the dedication and effort involved in making something like Boyhood, we probably won't see its like again in the near future, but I'm glad for this opportunity to view the results of Linklater's bold and rewarding experiment. | 18 | |
| Rolling Stone Peter Travers Richard Linklater's coming-of-age tale is the best movie of the year, a four-star game-changer that earns its place in the cultural time capsule. | 20 | |
| Metacritic.com 49 critics | 20 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 195 critics | 19 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Epic in technical scale but breathlessly intimate in narrative scope, Boyhood is a sprawling investigation of the human condition. | 20 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 18 | |
What the People say | ||
| Internet 24700 Netizens This is life! | 17 | |
Average .. 94% | 19 | |