

Boyhood
12 years in the making.
The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
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7.5/10
5,686 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $4M
- Box office
- $48.1M
- Language
- Spanish
- high school
- family's daily life
- college
- urban life
- coming of age
- growing up
- domestic abuse
- parenting
- divorce
- family
- nostalgic
- divorced parents
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival19 Jan 2014
- PremiereSouth by Southwest Film Festival9 Mar 2014
- PremiereRNew York City, New York7 Jul 2014
- Theatrical (limited)R11 Jul 2014
- TheatricalR15 Aug 2014
- Digital / OTTR9 Dec 2014
- PhysicalR6 Jan 2015
- TVRShowtime25 Apr 2015
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1511 Jul 2014
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM4 Sept 2014
CanadaCA
- Theatrical6 Jul 2014
- Theatrical12th Anniversary Rerelease31 Jul 2026
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1430 Oct 2014
CzechiaCZ
- Digital / OTT15+6 Jul 2014
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical114 Sept 2014
EstoniaEE
- PremiereTallinn Black Nights Film Festival14 Nov 2014
- Theatrical21 Nov 2014
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-127 Oct 2014
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP23 Jul 2014
GermanyDE
- Theatrical65 Jun 2014
GreeceGR
- TheatricalΚ-1211 Sept 2014
- PhysicalDVD, Blu-ray11 Feb 2015
Frequently asked questions
Boyhood was released on 5 June 2014.
Audience reviews
3- T
tmdb39513728
2/4/2015
**Phenomenal** When you think back to _Slackers_ you remember how easy that movie flowed. How comfortably it drifted. Just go with it. Let it happen, live in the moment. Then there's the _Before trilogy_ which again seemed effortless and free-flowing yet constructed with so much care that you knew this filmmaker was not only unusual, but acutely human. That he cherished experience and learning and submitted to the…
- M9/10
mattwilde123
3/9/2017
Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood' is a brilliant film about life and the struggle to find meaning. It follows a family through a twelve year period as they endure situations and tackle obstacles together. The main technical aspect of the film is a very controversial and memorable one as Linklater hired his main actors and continued to follow them for twelve years thus adding to the realism of the feature adding much poig…
- T6/10
The Movie Diorama
1/16/2020
Boyhood organically condenses twelve years of upbringing into an undramatic three hour behemoth. The journey of adolescence is one personality-altering experience that each of us inevitably undertakes. An existential life step that physically and personably transforms our very bodies, from innocent child to independent adult. Parents forced to release their protective talons and enable their children to venture out i…
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