Boyhood

As the story begins, dreamy-eyed grade-schooler Mason (Ellar Coltrane) 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.