Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a coming-of-age drama that the director spent twelve years making. He cast a young boy, Ellar Coltrane, and shot the film a few days at a time for over a decade so that he could capture how his leading actor, and the rest of his cast, aged. The film's story simply follows a boy named Mason (Coltrane) as he progresses from age 6 to 18 and deals with the typical travails of childhood like his parents' divorce, bad stepparents, falling in love, finding his artistic voice, and fighting with his bratty older sister. Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette co-star as Mason's parents.

STARS.........: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke DIRECTOR......: Richard Linklater WRITERS.......: Richard Linklater GENRE.........: Drama METASCORE.....: 100 TOMATOMETER...: 97 IMDB RATING...: 7.9/10 308,713 votes IMDB LINK.....: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1065073 RUNTIME.......: 2h 45mn SIZE..........: 6.49 GB VIDEO CODEC...: HEVC (Main@L4) BITRATE.......: 5000 Kbps (2-pass) RESOLUTION....: 1920x1080 ASPECT RATIO..: 1.85:1 FRAMERATE.....: 23.976 fps AUDIO1........: English E-AC3 5.1 512kbps AUDIO2........: Commentary with cast & crew SUBTITLES.....: ENG CHAPTERS......: Yes SOURCE........: Criterion Blu-ray remux ENCODED BY....: Sartre ENCODE DATE...: 2018-11-11